VELA v. STATE

No. 35324.

365 S.W.2d 15 (1963)

Ruben Cruz VELA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 20, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Tucker, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally and Carol S. Vance, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


McDONALD, Judge.

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

Acting upon the information of an informant, several narcotic officers of the Houston police department went to a vacant lot and found a foil wrapped package in some weeds near a utility pole. The officers' inspection of the package revealed that it contained 101 capsules, which were later identified as heroin. Inserting an identifying slip into the...

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