HESS v. STATE

No. 30905.

328 S.W.2d 308 (1959)

Eugene Ernest HESS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 24, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Chambers, Houston, for appellant.

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


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is robbery by assault; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The State's evidence shows that the prosecuting witness, Doris Orsak, was a cashier in a Walgreen Drug Store in the City of Houston. On the night in question a man who she postively identified as the appellant came into the store and handed her a note which read "This is a stick-up." Appellant then exhibited a pistol, pointed it at the prosecuting witness and told her...

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