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FINKLEA v. STATE

No. 45016.

481 S.W.2d 889 (1972)

Harold Lloyd FINKLEA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 19, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Finstrom, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., James B. Scott, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

DALLY, COMMISSIONER.

The conviction was for the possession of marihuana; the punishment, assessed by a jury, life imprisonment.

The appellant's first ground of error is that "the words `Against the peace and dignity of the State' have been stricken and dismissed from the indictment" rendering the indictment "void because it fails to comply with Article Five, Section 12 of the Constitution of the...

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