DAVIS v. STATE

No. 29044.

302 S.W.2d 419 (1957)

Kenny Joseph DAVIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 29, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allie L. Peyton, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White and Howell E. Stone, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the possession of heroin; the punishment, 60 years.

Officer Stringfellow of the Narcotics Division of the Houston Police Department testified, in the absence of the jury on the question of the legality of the search, that he and his fellow officers, after having received certain information, watched the appellant's home for two or three days before they made the affidavit.

In the presence of the jury, he testified...

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