BELL v. STATE

No. 30308.

321 S.W.2d 302 (1959)

Ercel King BELL, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 4, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. E. Schwarzabach, Jr., El Paso, for appellant.

William E. Clayton, Dist. Atty., Lawrence M. Welsch and James W. Mast, Asst. Dist. Attys., El Paso, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is robbery, as denounced by Articles 1559 and 1560, V.A.P.C., in that the robbery was alleged to have been committed in a foreign country and the fruits thereof brought into the State of Texas; the punishment, 5 years.

The laws of the State of Chihuahua were introduced in order to comply with the terms of Article 1560, supra.

Cantu, a 61-year old Latin American railroad worker, took his savings in the form of...

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