ALEXANDER v. STATE

No. 05-81-00117 CR.

629 S.W.2d 776 (1981)

Hayward ALEXANDER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

December 17, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Archie L. Cofer, Dallas, for appellant.

R. Kristin Weaver, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, for appellee.

Before GUITTARD, C. J., and WHITHAM and GUILLOT, JJ.


WHITHAM, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction by a jury for possession of heroin in which appellant's punishment, enhanced by two prior convictions, was set at life imprisonment in the Texas Department of Corrections. We affirm.

On January 9, 1978, Officer Jackson Ray Martin of the Dallas Police Department was assigned to the Vice Control Division, Drug Abuse Section. At approximately 8:40 p. m. on that date he received a telephone call from an unnamed...

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