Grundstrom v. State, 35142
| Decision Date | 16 January 1963 |
| Docket Number | No. 35142,35142 |
| Citation | 363 S.W.2d 945 |
| Parties | Daniel William GRUNDSTROM, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee. |
| Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
Ryan & Griffitts by Thomas L. Ryan, Herbert H. Landau, Gene Barrington, Houston, for appellant.
Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., George Milner, Jim Miller and Emmett Colvin, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
The offense is robbery; the punishment, 25 years.
The appellant was identified as the person who came in to the Tower Hotel Courts about 3:30 A.M.; arrived with a pistol and with what appeared to be a yellow napkin over the lower part of his face. He pointed the cocked pistol at E. C. Habern, the night clerk, and said 'Get up and get your money out of the cash drawer,' and threatened to blow his head off if he did not hurry.
Appellant produced a brown paper sack and said 'Hurry up and put the money in the sack.'
Habern complied, and also surrendered to the man the money in his wallet.
The robber directed Habern and Rubin Gudino, the bell boy, to lie down on the floor and he left with the money.
A short time later police officers stopped a 1953 Mercury automobile in which appellant was a passenger. The driver was asked for his driver's license and said he did not have one.
While one of the officers was checking a 'license suspension' list the other officer searched the car and found a loaded .22 caliber pistol and a brown paper sack containing $220 in bills and $7.00 in change.
When confronted with the pistol and sack of money, the appellant told the officer 'This other boy didn't have nothing to do with it.'
In a police line up the next morning Habern, the night clerk, and Rubin Gudino, the 'bell hop', identified appellant as the person who committed the robbery, and they identified him at the trial.
Appellant's brief presents as grounds for reversal the contention that the search of the automobile in which appellant was a passenger was unlawful, and the evidence obtained as a result thereof was inadmissible.
We find it unnecessary to pass upon the claimed error of the trial court in admitting the evidence relating to the search and the fruits thereof. Police Officer K. W. Heard testified, without objection:
'Q. All right, did you find anything in that Mercury that you took possession of?
'A. Yes sir, I did.
'Q. All right, first of all where did you find it?
'A. I found it, what I would call the righthand kick board of the car, it's below the glove-compartment, just--the fire wall, kick board; it's a paste board, between the body and the inside of the car. * * *
'Q. All right, now what did you find concealed behind that kick board?
'A. I found a pistol, a revolver; I found a brown paper sack containing bills and change, and a white handkerchief, inside there, between the body and the cardboard. * * *
'Q. All right, now then what did the boys or the men in the car say to you at that time?
'A. The person that was the passenger in the car told me, he says, 'This other boy didn't have nothing to do with it.' * * *
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