Coyne v. State

OPINION

DAVIS, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for possession of marihuana. Punishment was assessed by the jury at twenty years.

Narcotics investigator DeHoyos testified he received a phone call from a confidential and previously reliable informant at his home in Dallas at approximately 9 P.M., April 7, 1970. DeHoyos was advised by the informant that appellant and one Janet McDonald would be traveling Interstate Highway 35 from Austin to Dallas in a red and white 1965-1967 Chevy II Nova, with a rear antenna, sometime the following day with approximately one hundred to one…