SANTOS v. STATE

No. 36627.

379 S.W.2d 667 (1964)

Genevieve Florence SANTOS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 29, 1964.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied June 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Browne, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, James I. Smith, Jr., and Edward N. Shaw, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the possession of marihuana; the punishment, three years.

Officers of the Houston Police testified that armed with a search warrant they went to appellant's apartment, and when she opened the door they executed the warrant and on a coffee table in front of her found a purse which contained letters and identification cards bearing her name and a cellophane bag containing three cigarettes which were later proven by a chemist to...

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