LOFTIS v. STATE

No. 41432.

433 S.W.2d 704 (1968)

Edwin Lowell LOFTIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied November 27, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan R. McCormack, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Tom Reese, Charles Caperton, Malcolm Dade, Camille Elliott and Kerry P. FitzGerald, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is unlawful possession of heroin; the punishment, 50 years.

The indictment alleged that appellant and Rosemary Servance, alias Rosemary Williams, acting together, did unlawfully possess a narcotic drug, to-wit, heroin.

Trial was before a jury. Both of the co-indictees were represented by the same counsel of their choice. Rosemary Servance pleaded guilty while appellant pleaded not guilty before...

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