Grundstrom v. State

PPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for the offense of robbery by assault. A prior conviction for a like offense was alleged for enhancement; the punishment was assessed at life.

Jay Wadkins, the cashier of a food store in Midland, testified that appellant entered the store armed with a pistol and forced Wadkins to take the money from two cash registers and give it to him. He then ordered Wadkins and Raymond Navarro, ’Jr-, an eighteen-year-old boy who was in the store, to go to the back room, and to show them he “meant business” he fired a shot into a case of beer and left.

Appellant first…