VASQUEZ v. STATE

No. 13-81-160-CR.

649 S.W.2d 647 (1982)

Santiago VASQUEZ, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice D. Healy, Harlingen, for appellant.

Reynaldo Cantu, Jr., Dist. Atty., Brownsville, for appellee.

Before NYE, C.J., and BISSETT and YOUNG, JJ.


OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

Appellant Santiago Vasquez was convicted by a jury of intentionally and knowingly possessing a short-barreled firearm. The trial court thereafter assessed the appellant's punishment as five years imprisonment. We affirm.

The record shows that on April 7, 1980, relatives of the appellant summoned police officers to a house in which the appellant and his grandmother were present. Vasquez had in his possession a short-barreled...

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