ALLEN v. STATE

No. 42736.

451 S.W.2d 915 (1970)

James William ALLEN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 1, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Z. Baker, Galveston, for appellant.

Jules Damiani, Jr., Dist. Atty., R. L. Wilson and M. Bruce Fort, Asst. Dist. Attys., Galveston, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the possession of marijuana; the punishment, five (5) years.

Appellant's principal ground of error is that the court erred in refusing to submit the question to the jury of whether the state's sole witness who connected appellant with the offense, Graugnard, was an accomplice in his charge. The witness Graugnard testified that on the day in question he went to a certain address in search for some marijuana...

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