JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 38692.

397 S.W.2d 441 (1965)

Grady JOHNSON, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 19, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Cantwell, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., C. M. Turlington, Malcolm Dade and W. John Allison, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for the unlawful possession of marihuana; the punishment, fifteen years.

The state's evidence shows that on the night in question Officers Bliss and Williams saw the appellant walking on a public road in the city of Dallas. When they observed that he was "staggering and wobbling around," they stopped the patrol car and went to him. After engaging appellant in conversation, in which he spoke in a "confused and slurred"...

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