McLane v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for robbery by assault ; the punishment, enhanced under Art. 62, V.A.P.C., by reason of a prior conviction for an offense of like character, life imprisonment.

The state’s evidence was undisputed that on the night in question an armed bandit wearing a woman’s silk stocking over his head entered the Hickory Stick restaurant ■on North 18th Street in the city of Waco and robbed the place by assaulting the cashier, Marguerite Darden, and taking $758.12 from the cash register.

Mrs. Darden, called as a witness by the state, described in detail the robbery and…