GARZA v. STATE

No. 34682.

358 S.W.2d 622 (1962)

Gilberto Lopez GARZA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 27, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Massey LeRoy Peavy, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Gus J. Zgourides, Assts. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for the possession of marijuana; the punishment, thirty-five years.

Officer Maddox, of the Houston Police Department, testified that while in the company of Officer Fredrich in a cafe, he observed the appellant and when appellant went to the restroom in the cafe they followed; that he there searched the appellant, finding in his shirt pocket a "leafy substance that appeared to be marijuana", which he identified while...

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