Stewart v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

These are appeals from revocations of probation for possession of marihuana. Punishment was assessed at five years.

Two police officers of the Nacogdoches Police Department testified that, at night, while on routine patrol through a residential neighborhood, they observed a van and an automobile parked at the end of a dead end street in front of a house then under construction. There were no other homes on the block.

As the police officers approached the van, they shined their spotlights into the van and saw four people inside. The policemen left their car and approached…