ROSE v. STATE

No. 43911.

470 S.W.2d 198 (1971)

Fred ROSE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abney & Burleson by James A. Mills, Jr., court appointed Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., John B. Tolle, Harry J. Schulz, Jr., W. T. Westmoreland, Jr., and Edgar A. Mason, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the possession of marihuana. The punishment was assessed by the jury at niney-nine years.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. The record reflects that officers were told by a seventeen-year-old boy that Fred Rose had robbed him. The officers found the appellant, arrested and searched him and seized two matchboxes containing enough marihuana to make eight or ten cigarettes...

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