SUTTON v. STATE

No. 40544.

419 S.W.2d 857 (1967)

Robert Earl SUTTON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied November 1, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank S. Wright, Henry J. Novak, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Robert Stinson, John Stauffer and Kerry P. Fitz-Gerald, Asst. Dist. Attys. Dallas, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty, Austin, for the State.


OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for the possession of marihuana, a narcotic drug; and the punishment was assessed at twenty-five years.

The appellant urges as a ground of error that he was denied the protection of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when the trial court admitted, over objection, his admission that he lived in the apartment where the marihuana was found.

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