Chatterfield v. State

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for assault to rob; the punishment, two years.

The appellant filed an application for probation, pleaded guilty before a jury, the court submitted the issues of punishment and probation to them, and the jury declined to recommend that the sentence be probated.

The testimony of the state reveals that the appellant, age nineteen, and his companion unsuccessfully tried to take a purse from a woman they had stopped while she was walking along a public road. When help appeared, the appellant and his companion fled the scene and went to the home of Patricia…