GIBBS v. STATE

No. 31868.

336 S.W.2d 625 (1960)

James GIBBS, Appellant v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 22, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harlan & Lasof, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, David Ball, Jr., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is robbery, with two prior convictions alleged for enhancement; the punishment, life.

Our prior opinions are withdrawn.

The witness Williams testified that he was employed at a service station at 1:35 A.M. on the night of June 28, 1959, when a colored man resembling appellant and another man drove into the station in a blue and white Ford automobile, at pistol point took the contents of his cash register and his...

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