Hammonds v. State

316 S.W.2d 423 (1958)

Johnny HAMMONDS, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 29679.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 7, 1958.

Rehearing Denied June 25, 1958.

Thomas K. Bamford, Robert C. Benavides, Charles H. Hardeman, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Jack Cole, Homer Montgomery and A. D. Jim Bowie, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is the unlawful sale of heroin, a narcotic drug; the punishment, thirty-five years.

The sufficiency of the evidence being challenged, the testimony must be…