Kelly v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is robbery with fire-arms; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for 49 years.

A. M. Connally, an accomplice, testified for the state. He stated that appellant, Bill Johnson, a man called “Shorty” and himself entered the home of Miss M. J. Shearer, near Winnsboro, on the 21st of April, 1928, and by the use of force, appellant displaying a pistol at the time, took some money from the possession of one of the occupants of the house. It appears from the testimony of this witness that he and his companions had met in Polk County, which was about 160 miles…