Lewis v. State

OPINION

DAVIS, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for robbery by assault. The jury assessed punishment at forty years.

The record reflects that Homer Lee Sessions identified appellant as one of two men who robbed him at gunpoint of $700 in cash and between three and four hundred dollars in checks, while Sessions was working as a route salesman for Pearl Beer Distributing Company in Dallas on December 23, 1968.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged.

At the outset, appellant contends that the court erred in overruling appellant’s motion for a continuance.

Trial began on…