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FLETCHER v. STATE

No. 41678.

437 S.W.2d 849 (1968)

Albert Jack FLETCHER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 12, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roye & Weatherly, by Gerald Weatherly, Graham, Pete Perez, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Frank Coffey, Dist. Atty., Clayton Evans and John E. McLean, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is possession of a dangerous drug; the punishment, two years in the county jail.

The complaint and information allege that appellant possessed "a dangerous drug, to wit: a barbituric acid derivative."

Initially, appellant urges that such instruments failed to sufficiently describe the dangerous drug allegedly possessed so as to inform him of the act upon which his conviction was sought.

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