Turner v. State

The conviction is for the unlawful possession of a narcotic drug; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The state’s testimony shows that on the night in question, Officers Stringfellow and Gray of the Narcotics Division of the Houston Police Department, armed with four warrants *43for the appellant’s arrest, went to the appellant’s home at 2614 Grayson Street, in company with a colored man by the name of James Hall. When they arrived Hall knocked on the door and was admitted into the house by the appellant while the two officers remained outside on the porch where they could see and hear what…