Case ID: sw_298/html/0424-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BAKER, J. LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CARTER v. STATE.
    (No. 11007.)
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    June 15, 1927.
    Rehearing Denied Oct. 19, 1927.
    Robbery <&wkey;24(3) — Defendant held sufficiently identified as bank robber by positive testimony of persons in bank at time.
    Defendant held sufficiently identified as one who robbed bank by positive testimony of people in bank at time of robbery.
    Commissioners’ Decision.
    Appeal from Criminal District Court No. 2, Dallas County; C. A. Pippen, Judge.
    R. R. Carter was convicted of robbery with firearms, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    G. W. Bindsey, of Dallas, for appellant.
    William McCraw, Crim. Dist. Atty., Andrew J. Priest, Asst. Crim. Dist. Atty., both of Dallas, and Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., and Robt. M. Lyles, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.
   BAKER, J.

The appellant was convicted of robbery with firearms, and his punishment assessed at 99 years in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that the appellant was charged by indictment with robbing W. 0. Jamison, cashier of the Eirst -National Bank of Garland, by the use of firearms, and with taking from his possession $4,541.25 in money on or about April 1, 1926, It appears from the state’s testimony that the appellant, a few minutes after noon on the above date, entered the hack door of the bank in question, drew a pistol on the cashier, W. C. Jam-ison, and another on the bookkeeper, Mrs. Oscar Morrison, and compelled the cashier, under threats, to deliver to him the amount of money set out in the indictment. The appellant then locked the cashier, the bookkeeper, and a negro, who had entered the bank, in the vault, and made his escape. He was afterwards located and arrested in the state of Montana, and brought back to Dallas for trial.

The appellant failed to testify.

The record is before us without any bills of exception, and the only question for our consideration is the sufficiency of the testimony to warrant the conviction. The state’s witnesses positively identified appellant as being the party who committed the robbery, and, after a careful examination of the entire record, we are of the opinion that the verdict of the jury is amply supported by the testimony.

The judgment of the trial court is therefore affirmed.

PER OURIAM. The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.

On Motion for Rehearing.

LATTIMORE, J.

In his motion, appellant again lays stress on what he calls the lack of testimony to identify him as the man who robbed the 'bank in question. We have reexamined the facts, and find that both of the people who were in the bank at the time same was robbed testified positively that appellant was the man who committed,the robbery. We are at a loss to know how the identification could be more direct or positive.

The motion for rehearing will be overruled.