STANTON v. STATE

No. 35553.

365 S.W.2d 928 (1963)

Phillip STANTON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 27, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Martin, Sidney Dawson, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Bill Alexander, Don Cates, Emmett Colvin, Jr., and Steve Guittard, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is robbery with firearms; the punishment, 20 years.

The witness Washer, an operator of a package store, testified that appellant, wearing a raincoat, rushed into his store on the night in question, asked for a bottle of wine, simultaneously removing a sawed off shotgun from under his raincoat, pointed the same at the witness and ordered him to the rear of the store. Washer stated that at this juncture another male ran in the store...

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