BEAM v. STATE

No. 46412.

500 S.W.2d 802 (1973)

William Alexander BEAM, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied November 21, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvyn Carson Bruder, Dallas (Court appointed on appeal only), for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., and Mike McCollum, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for robbery by assault. The court assessed punishment at fifty years.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. A summary of the evidence is as follows:

On the night of March 25, 1971, appellant and Walter Guy Pilcher, co-defendant in the case below, entered the taxicab of Charles William Dean and directed him to drive them to...

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