VANDERVENTER v. STATE

No. 41357.

429 S.W.2d 888 (1968)

Samuel Howard VANDERVENTER, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 26, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis White, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Myron Garner, Malcolm Dade, Kerry P. FitzGerald and Camille Elliott, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, 15 years.

The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the jury's verdict is challenged on the ground that there is no evidence showing the purported crime to be more than a joke.

The record reflects that the state offered testimony showing that appellant, a customer, came to the grocery store owned by Mrs. Charles Huckaby. While he and the complaining witness, Mrs. Thelma...

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