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SCELLES v. STATE

No. 34712.

358 S.W.2d 623 (1962)

William Rutledge SCELLES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 27, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Browne, Houston, for appellant.

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

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for the unlawful possession of morphine, a narcotic drug; the punishment, enhanced by two prior convictions for felonies less than capital, life imprisonment.

The evidence adduced upon the issue of appellant's guilt of the primary offense is substantially the same as was introduced in the companion case of Blaylock v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 352 S.W.2d 727, and shows:

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