SANDERS v. STATE

No. 29715.

312 S.W.2d 640 (1958)

Morris SANDERS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 16, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Shown, W. E. Martin, Houston, for appellant.

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


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

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

Officer Gray of the narcotics division of the Houston police force testified that on the night in question he received information from a credible source that a colored man named Morris, wearing a checkered sport shirt, khaki pants and a dress cap, had marijuana in his possession and was walking on Elgin Street in the direction of Dowling Street; that he and his...

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