CARRIER v. STATE

No. 26832

264 S.W.2d 728 (1954)

CARRIER v. STATE

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 17, 1954


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll W. Smith, El Paso, for appellant.

William E. Clayton, Dist. Atty., Jack N. Fant, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Owen H. Ellington, Asst. Dist. Atty., El Paso, Wesley Dice, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, 99 years.

The appellant plead guilty and offered no evidence in his behalf.

The State's evidence will be summarized. Mr. Sims, a 62-year old tubercular, was assaulted by appellant at Sims' home and beaten over the head with a sack containing buckshot and then with a pair of heavy tin snips. Following this, Sims was forced to drive his automobile to a point where appellant's wife joined them;...

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