Levine v. State

REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.

A jury found appellant Steven Lawrence Levine guilty of the aggravated possession of marihuana and assessed his punishment at confinement for six years and a fine of $50,000. Appellant contends that evidence of the marihuana, which was seized from his vehicle in a warrantless search after he was stopped for a traffic offense, should have been suppressed. Disagreeing, we will affirm.

Neither the trial court, hearing appellant’s pretrial motion to suppress, nor the jury, being instructed by the court’s charge on probable cause, was persuaded to disregard the evidence of…