ORTIZ v. STATE

No. 33326.

346 S.W.2d 606 (1961)

Ben Marquis ORTIZ, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 26, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., and Jon N. Hughes, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for the sale of heroin; the punishment, 20 years.

The testimony of the state shows that Marshall T. Massey, Special Employee for the City of Houston Police Department, was informed by the appellant on June 22, 1960 that he was going to have some heroin for sale. During the afternoon of the following day, Massey followed by Officer Hightower and Agent Hughes in separate vehicles, drove alone in his car to a hotel where...

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