HERNANDEZ v. STATE

No. 31555.

334 S.W.2d 299 (1960)

Carlos Gonzales HERNANDEZ, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 16, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garcia & Warburton, Brownsville, O. B. Garcia, Brownsville, of counsel, for appellant.

F. T. Graham, County Crim. Dist. Atty., by Joe W. Walsh, Asst. County Crim. Dist. Atty., Brownsville, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for possessing marihuana; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

This case presents some unusual aspects.

Scholl, undercover agent for the Texas Department of Public Safety, testified that about the 16th day of March, 1957, he was in company with an informer, whom he did not further identify, when appellant "* * stopped the informer and [him], and he [appellant] talked to the informer briefly in Spanish...

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