WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 30089.

317 S.W.2d 537 (1958)

Thelma Louise WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 5, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke & Melton, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Homer G. Montgomery and A. D. Jim Bowie, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is possession of marijuana; the punishment, 15 years.

Officer Tuck of the Dallas police department testified that on the night in question he observed the appellant walking up and down a certain street and "contact different people on the street * * * mostly men," after which he placed her under arrest and, as he was seating her in the police automobile, she threw her purse down on the pavement, that he retrieved the...

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