Coats v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

Appellant was convicted by a jury of possession of methamphetamine, and his punishment was assessed at fifteen years in the Texas Department of Corrections.1 The Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction. Coats v. State, 769 S.W.2d 724 (Tex.App.—Ft. Worth 1989). This Court granted appellant’s ground for review which *716stated: “The decision by the Court of Appeals affirming the trial Courts [sic] failure to suppress evidence is in direct conflict with previous decisions by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.” In the brief in support of his…