MORRISON v. STATE

No. 43504.

465 S.W.2d 747 (1971)

Aubrey D. MORRISON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Burns, Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., Phyllis Bell and James C. Larkin, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Auston, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is possession of heroin as a second offender; the punishment, thirty (30) years.

The sole question presented is the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction. Three officers testified on the motion to suppress, in the absence of the jury, that in reliance upon information received from a reliable and confidential informer, the appellant and one Arnold were at that moment engaged in selling heroin from...

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