Legal Opinion

Allen v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided April 1, 1970No. 42736Published

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the possession of marijuana; the punishment, five (5) years.

Appellant’s principal ground of error is that the court erred in refusing to submit the question to the jury of whether the state’s sole witness who connected appellant with the offense, Graugnard, was an accomplice in his charge. The witness Graugnard testified that on the day in question he went to a certain address in search for some marijuana, as he was at such time a marijuana user. He met the appellant, and asked him if he could get him a matchbox of marijuana. According to such witness,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Anderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1924

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