Girard v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

A jury found the appellant guilty of aggravated robbery and assessed his punishment of 25 years confinement. He questions the sufficiency of the evidence.

In this offense a jeweler was robbed. The offense began with the jeweler’s teenaged sons being taken hostage. The boys were at home in Farmer’s Branch when two men (Barnes and Redrick) who were not masked entered the house, tied them up, and blindfolded them. A third man then came in. The jeweler came home about 20 minutes later to find the men waiting for him with guns. Only one of the three men was wearing a mask and…