ABBOTT v. STATE

No. 32990.

344 S.W.2d 166 (1961)

Charles Ira ABBOTT, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 22, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. C. Divine, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., F. Lee Duggan, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, enhanced by two prior convictions for felonies less than capital, life.

The evidence shows that Ciro Samperi was robbed of $900 in his grocery store after midnight, by a man whose face was covered by a silk stocking and who had a pistol pointed at Samperi.

Testifying at the trial Mr. Samperi identified appellant as the robber, as did Sam Caltagirone who had come across the street from...

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