CONNAUGHTON v. STATE

No. 28590.

297 S.W.2d 185 (1956)

Charles Edward CONNAUGHTON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 21, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Collins, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Thomas B. Thorpe, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for robbery; the punishment, thirty years in the penitentiary.

D. L. Hicks, assistant manager of Cabell's Minit Market, testified that the appellant came into the market, exhibited a pistol, commanded that he give him the "greenbacks" in the cash register which he did because he was in fear of serious bodily injury and his life; that the appellant then ran from the store and got into a car, and that he notified the...

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