Etzler v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is robbery. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of five years.

Omitting the formal parts, it is charged in the indictment:

“That D. M. Etzler on or about the 12th day of July A. D., one thousand nine hundred and Thirty-nine and before the presentment of this indictment, in the County of Lynn and State of Texas, did then and there unlawfully in and upon G. E. Knight did make an assault; and did then and there, by the said assault, and by violence to the said G. E. Knight, and by putting the said G. E. Knight in fear of life and…