Soto v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for robbery; the punishment, fifteen years in the state penitentiary.

The indictment, in charging the offense, alleged the exhibition of a firearm, which allegation was, with leave of the court, dismissed by the state.

William Coleman, a Negro man, who was the victim of the alleged robbery, testified that while he was sitting in front of a grocery store in the city of Cuero on the early morning of May 1, 1954, the appellant and another man drove up in a car, stopped, and called him to the car; that when he went to the car appellant pointed a pistol at him and told…