WHITE v. STATE

No. 29881.

316 S.W.2d 754 (1958)

W. D. WHITE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 8, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. E. Winfree, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for unlawfully possessing marihuana; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

In view of our disposition of the case a recitation of the facts is not deemed necessary other than to observe that the State's evidence shows that appellant was arrested at a hotel in the City of Mexia by Chief of Police Bill Parten after the chief had searched his room and found in the pocket of a coat hanging on a chair, a Velvet tobacco...

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