Legal Opinion
$165, 524.78 v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided April 5, 2001No. 14-99-00200-CVPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAJORITY OPINION
EDELMAN, Justice.
Samuel Mares appeals a judgment forfeiting $163,000 to the State on the grounds that there is no evidence or insufficient evidence to support the jury’s finding that the money seized from Mares’s home and automobile was contraband. We affirm.
Background
In early 1996, Harris County Sheriffs Deputy William Tipps received information from his father, James Godfrey, a Houston Police Officer, that narcotics activity was being conducted at 6841 Malibu. Tipps watched the house at that address on and off for six months looking for suspicious activity. On January 9,…
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3Cited by5 opinions
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