FRANKLIN v. STATE

No. 46294.

494 S.W.2d 825 (1973)

George Washington FRANKLIN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 13, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Magnussen (on appeal only), Fort Worth, for appellant.

Doug Crouch, Dist. Atty., William W. Chambers, Tim Evans and J. J. Heinemann, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty. and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

JACKSON, Commissioner.

Conviction by a jury on a plea of not guilty of possession of a narcotic drug, to-wit, marihuana; the punishment, nineteen (19) years.

Armed with a search warrant on July 8, 1970, four police officers went to apartment 201 in the Big Tex Apartments at 1628 East Hattie in Ft. Worth. They searched the apartment and found a white beer cooler in the bedroom containing three brown paper bags and eight plastic bags containing...

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