HARPER v. STATE

No. 27736.

284 S.W.2d 362 (1955)

Otis Wayne HARPER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 9, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin & Shown, by W. E. Martin, Houston, James B. Turner, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Eugene Brady, Asst. Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the possession of heroin; the punishment, 10 years.

Officer Tucker testified that at approximately 5:00 P.M. on the day in question he observed two men, one of whom he recognized as Haynes, seated in a parked automobile on a street in the City of Houston some 50 feet from a filling station; that the automobile had two flat tires, and "the right side was bent"; that Haynes was "sitting with his head kind of slumped...

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