GUAJARDO v. STATE

No. 36849.

378 S.W.2d 853 (1964)

Frank Cardenas GUAJARDO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 20, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evans & Egger, by Samuel L. Egger, San Antonio, on appeal only, for appellant.

J. Taylor Brite, Dist. Atty., Jourdanton, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

Unlawful possession of heroin is the offense; the punishment, fifteen years.

It was shown by the state's evidence that on the night of May 4, 1960, as highway patrolmen Ray Curtis and Don Keller were traveling on U. S. Highway 81 near Gardendale in LaSalle County they observed a Pontiac automobile parked on the highway with the lights off. Appellant was standing by the vehicle, waving his shirt. The patrolmen proceeded to pass, then made...

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