BURNS v. STATE

No. 34118.

353 S.W.2d 859 (1962)

Donald Wayne BURNS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 24, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Wayne Burns, appellant, pro se.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Dallas, William F. Tucker, Jack Hampton and Phil Burleson, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for robbery with firearms; the punishment, fifty years.

This is a companion case to that of Blaylock v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 347 S.W.2d 718.

The evidence of the state in this case is substantially the same as that shown in the decision of Blaylock's case, supra. L. M. Box, the owner of the store, and his wife, while testifying in the instant case, identified the appellant as...

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