Mercer v. State

O’QUINN, Justice.

This is an appeal from the juvenile court of Travis County in which appellant was adjudged a delinquent child and committed to the custody of the Texas Youth Council.

These proceedings grew out of discovery, by the principal of the school the youth was attending, of several forms of marijuana in possession of appellant.

Appellant contends that the marijuana he took from his pockets and placed on the principal’s desk was recovered by an unreasonable search and seizure in contravention of his constitutional rights afforded by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United…