FIELDS v. STATE

No. 30316.

323 S.W.2d 439 (1959)

David James FIELDS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 4, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Shireman, John R. Padilla, Corpus Christi, King C. Haynie, Houston, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for the possession of marijuana; the punishment, fifty years.

After a deputy sheriff was informed that a certain described automobile was being used to transport marijuana, he saw the car so described, unoccupied, on a parking lot, and from a near-by point began observing it. At this time the deputy sheriff by radio transmitted such information to two other officers and they took a position three blocks distant from...

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