LUCAS v. STATE

No. 35820.

368 S.W.2d 605 (1963)

John Earnest LUCAS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 29, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grady Hight, of Love & Hight, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Doug Crouch, Dist. Atty., Albert F. Fick, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is robbery, with a prior conviction for an offense of like character alleged for enhancement; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The state's proof shows that on the day in question three men wearing plastic Hallowe'en-type masks—two of whom were armed with pistols—entered a Safeway Store at 3601 Avenue E in the city of Fort Worth, around 8:20 o'clock, p. m., and after forcing D. H. Zettler, the store manager, to...

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