JAMES v. STATE

No. 45412.

493 S.W.2d 201 (1973)

Wade Cooper JAMES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 1, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Lee, III, Dallas (On Appeal Only), for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Robert T. Baskett, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the sale of marihuana; the punishment, fifty (50) years.

We are met at the outset with the trial court's refusal to require the State to disclose the name of the informer. Upon examination of the record, we conclude that Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 53, 77 S.Ct. 623, 1 L.Ed.2d 639, is dispositive of the question before us. In...

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