POE v. STATE

No. 48914.

513 S.W.2d 545 (1974)

Jimmy Cranfill POE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

September 18, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. C. "Kit" Cooke, on Appeal only, Cleburne, for appellant.

Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Lawrence J. Gist, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

JACKSON, Commissioner.

The conviction was for unlawful possession of a narcotic drug, to-wit: marihuana. A jury having found appellant guilty of the offense, the court assessed punishment at ten (10) years' imprisonment.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not denied. In October, 1972, appellant and his co-defendant, Jimmy Goains, drove over 900 miles to Lima, Illinois, to harvest marihuana that was growing wild on "government land" near Lima...

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