MARTINEZ v. STATE

No. 37665.

387 S.W.2d 673 (1965)

Ismael MARTINEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 24, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin Foster, Jr., Corpus Christi, for appellant.

Sam L. Jones, Jr., Dist. Atty., Corpus Christi, Clifford L. Zarsky, 1st Asst. Dist. Atty., Corpus Christi, and Douglas Tinker, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

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

Witnesses for the state testified:

Appellant's apartment was searched and a coffee can containing marihuana was discovered. One of the searching officers went to a nearby cafe where appellant was at work and brought him to the apartment where he identified the coffee can containing the marihuana as belonging to him, and placed his initials on the can.

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