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ARECHIGA v. STATE

No. 43366.

462 S.W.2d 1 (1971)

Rudolph Castillo ARECHIGA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 20, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herrington, Levbarg, Weeks & Jones by T. Allen Herrington, Austin, for appellant.

Bob Smith, Dist. Atty. and Lawrence Wells, Asst. Dist. Atty., and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the possession of heroin; the punishment, enhanced by two prior felony convictions (Vernon's Ann.P.C. art. 63) less than capital, was assessed at life.

Appellant's first two grounds of error concern the trial court's refusal to allow the appellant to introduce extrinsic evidence for the purpose of impeaching the state's witness on a collateral matter.

Mary Hernandez testified...

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