Patterson v. State

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge.

Appellant Charles “Pat” Patterson, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court, Comanche County, Case No. F-73-322, for the offense of Delivery and Distribution of Heroin, After Former Conviction of a Drug Offense. The jury fixed his punishment at forty (40) years imprisonment and a fine of Forty Thousand ($40,000.00) Dollars, and from said judgment and sentence a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.

The evidence introduced at trial on behalf of the State presented the following version of the facts. On March 6,…