HARRELL v. STATE

No. 29888.

314 S.W.2d 590 (1958)

Peggy Ann HARRELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 18, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Buck C. Miller, King C. Haynie, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White and Gus J. Zgourides, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The complaint and information under which, in a trial without a jury, appellant was found guilty and assessed sixty days in jail and a fine of $250, reads in its charging part: "* * * Peggy Ann Harrell did then and there unlawfully possess amphetamine."

Art. 726c, Vernon's Ann.P.C., Sec. 3(e) makes unlawful the possession of a barbiturate by any person, unless such person obtained the drug under the specific provisions of Section 3(a) (1) and...

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