Galvan v. State

OPINION

KEITH, Commissioner.

Appellant was indicted for intentional possession of more than four ounces of marihuana; the jury found him to be guilty and his punishment was enhanced because of a prior conviction and fixed at confinement for fifteen years.

Briefly, the record reflects that on April 7,1974, James Hallmark discovered sixteen kilos of a substance later shown to be marihuana. The bricks of marihuana were in a barracks bag, under a tub, in an abandoned shed on his mother’s farm near a house rented to appellant’s father.

Hallmark reported his discovery to Sheriff Bill McGuire of…