ROWELL v. STATE

No. 0766-00.

66 S.W.3d 279 (2001)

David Lewis ROWELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

November 21, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Cunningham, Houston, for appellant.

Carol M. Cameron, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, Matthew Paul, States Atty., Austin, for State.

Before the Court En Banc.


WOMACK, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.

May a court of appeals, without examining a reporter's record of a guilty plea and sentencing, decide that a trial court erred in denying an appellant's motion to suppress evidence? We hold that it may.

The appellant was charged with misdemeanor possession of marihuana that was found during a search of his estranged wife's residence. The search was authorized by a search warrant issued by a United States...

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