SUTTON v. STATE

No. 29995.

317 S.W.2d 58 (1958)

Henry SUTTON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 22, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. C. Divine, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White and Jon N. Hughes, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is possession of heroin; the punishment, life.

Officer Stringfellow of the narcotics division of the Houston police force testified, in the absence of the jury on the issue of probable cause, that on the night in question he received information from a woman he knew named Maxine that the appellant would soon thereafter be leaving his home in his automobile to make a delivery of heroin and that he proceeded at once, in...

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