Braggs v. State

334 S.W.2d 793 (1960)

Theresa Mae BRAGGS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 31861.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 27, 1960.

Clyde W. Woody (on appeal only), Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Jon N. Hughes, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is possession of a narcotic drug; the punishment, 8 years.

The conviction must be reversed for two reasons.

The examining trial testimony of Officer Chavez was read into the record by agreement, which relates how he…