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TURNER v. STATE

No. 31428.

331 S.W.2d 319 (1960)

John TURNER, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 3, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Cowie, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., and Gus J. Zgourides, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for the unlawful possession of a narcotic drug; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The State's testimony shows that on the night in question, Officer Stringfellow and Gray of the Narcotics Division of the Houston Police Department, armed with four warrants for the appellant's arrest, went to the appellant's home at 2614 Grayson Street, in company with a colored man by the name of James Hall. When they arrived Hall knocked...

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