WHEELER v. STATE

No. 40283.

413 S.W.2d 705 (1967)

Lewis Charles WHEELER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 12, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Rodney Brister, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., John J. Stauffer, Scott Bradley and Kerry P. FitzGerald Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

ONION, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the possession of marihuana. After a trial before a jury, the punishment assessed by the Court was thirty (30) years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

In the early morning hours of May 14, 1966, officers of the Dallas Police Department, armed with a search warrant and an arrest warrant, forcibly entered appellant's home after no one answered their knocks. The validity...

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