Perry v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for the unlawful possession of marijuana; the punishment, five years.

The state’s evidence shows that Officers Shepherd and Taylor, while on patrol duty in the city of Houston around nine o’clock P.M., observed an automobile being driven by the appellant, which, the evidence showed, belonged to his mother, in the 4800 Block of Market Street, without the tail lights burning. After signalling for the appellant to stop, and while following close behind, the officers observed an object thrown from the right-hand side of the automobile as it was slowing down and which…