Bell v. State

Appellant was convicted of robbery and his punishment assessed at seven years confinement in the state penitentiary.

The indictment against appellant alleges that he did make an assault on Jim Smith, and by said assault and by violence and by putting Smith in fear of life by the use of firearms, etc., did fraudulently take from Smith certain property. Appellant contends that this indictment charges two offenses in one count, and cites us to Murdock v. State, 52 Tex. Cr. R. 262, 106 S. W. 374, in which it is so held, and, if the indictment did seek to charge two offenses in one count, of…