SIKES v. STATE

No. 31600.

334 S.W.2d 440 (1960)

Walton Sayon SIKES, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 23, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde W. Woody, Carl E. F. Dally, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Edward D. Michalek, Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., 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 marijuana; the punishment, 3 years.

Officer R. D. Smith of the Narcotics Division of the Houston Police Department testified that on the day in question he received information around 2:30 P.M. from an informant at the Sunken Gardens in the city that a pink and black Ford convertible bearing license No. S. L. 3365 would be traveling on Alemeda Street in the "next few minutes" and would be...

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