Thornton v. State

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge.

Thomas Marvin Thornton, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court of Oklahoma County for the offense of Possession of Marijuana; his punishment was fixed at a fine of Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dollars and from said judgment and sentence a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.

Briefly stated, the evidence at the trial revealed that at 9:00 p. m. on January 18, 1970, three officers of the Oklahoma City Police Department went to the defendant’s apartment to arrest the defendant’s wife’s brother. They had an…