FAIRRIS v. STATE

No. 28528.

296 S.W.2d 257 (1956)

Iwanna Clyde FAIRRIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 28, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben Henderson, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., John Burns, George P. Blackburn and Homer Montgomery, Asst. Criminal Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

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

Mrs. J. W. Hartin, a witness for the state, testified that on August 20, 1949, she and her husband operated a small neighborhood grocery store; that about 7:00 P.M. as they were preparing to close for the night, the appellant entered the store, exhibited a gun, pointed it toward her, and demanded the money from the cash register; and her husband who had been...

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