Houston v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for seven years.

Noel D. Weaver, the injured party, testified that appellant and another man held him up at the point of a pistol and robbed him of sixty-six dollars. He said the offense was committed about four o’clock in the afternoon when he was returning to the Phoenix Dairy after having made his afternoon delivery of milk. According to his version, appellant and his companion were not masked, and appellant was within two or three feet of him when his money was taken. The witness positively identified…