Noah v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises out of a conviction for possession of heroin wherein the punishment was assessed at 50 years.

At the outset the appellant urges that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence “contraband which was recovered as a result of the unlawful chase and arrest of the Appellant in violation of the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.”

On February 2, 1971, Galveston City Police Officer Picard, in company with Officer Melanson, was on Pelican Island in an unmarked police vehicle — a 1966 Ford Mustang — when Picard…