Talamantez v. State
This text of 147 S.W.2d 799 (Talamantez v. State) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Appellant was charged with robbery of the person by assault, and by the jury awarded a penalty of five years in the penitentiary.
He complains in his motion for a new trial of a failure of *133 the allegation and proof to correspond in the matter of the name of the person alleged to have been robbed. We find that the indictment alleges the person robbed to have been named Toleno Rodriguez, and we find the testimony of the witness to be:
“My name is Victoriano Rodriguez, and I also go by the name of Toleno Rodriguez; they call me Toleno Sanchez but its Toleno Rodriguez; that’s- my name, Toleno Rodriguez, and I live here in Bracket, and have lived here since I was a boy.”
It seems that the injured party was known by possibly two names, and it seems • to be sufficient to allege either name in the indictment. See Branch’s Penal Code, p. 239, Sec. 464; Stokes v. State, 46 Texas Cr. R. 358, 81 S. W. 1213.
The testimony shows that appellant struck the complaining witness over the head and knocked him down, and while the witness was down appellant again struck witness and then ran his fingers under the fingers of the complaining witness and forcibly took the money out of witness’ hand and left. We think these facts show a robbery by assault as charged in the indictment.
We find no error presented to us, and therefore the judgment is affirmed.
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