ROSSITER v. STATE

No. 30669.

323 S.W.2d 953 (1959)

Hubert James ROSSITER, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 6, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No attorney of record on appeal for appellant.

Dan Walton Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White, Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., and Fred M. Hooey, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, 5 years.

Appellant and one Robert Earnest Garter were in a Houston bar where Manuel Sosa was drinking beer.

Sosa left with Vera Pollard, a bar maid he met there, and walked with her to her bus stop.

As Sosa was crossing the street to return to the bar he was struck on the side of his face and knocked down by Carter. As he started to get up appellant took Sosa's watch from his wrist.

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