ROUTE v. STATE

No. 30779.

327 S.W.2d 761 (1959)

George ROUTE, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 24, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. C. Divine, Russell F. Wolters, Houston, for appellant.

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


WOODLEY, Judge.

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

Officers Gray and Stringfellow, of the Narcotics Division of the Houston Police Department, having received information that appellant was going to bring some narcotics there, entered an apartment house and waited for him in an unlit hallway at the top of the stairs.

The officers saw appellant drive up in a 1954 Chrysler and get out and walk toward the apartment.

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