Vawter v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for robbery with punishment assessed at ten years in the penitentiary.

On the night of October 29, 1927, about nine-thirty o’clock J. W. Bidwell, Manager of an A. & P. store in Houston was robbed. Bidwell and two other persons positively identified appellant as the robber.

The only bill of exception found in the record brings forward complaint based upon the court’s action in overruling the motion for new trial. One ground of the motion set up newly discovered evidence from two parties, viz., Mrs. Sylvia Thomas and Hamilton Beazley. The affidavits of the two parties…