Scelles v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for the unlawful possession of morphine, a narcotic drug; the punishment, enhanced by two prior convictions for felonies less than capital, life imprisonment.

The evidence adduced upon the issue of appellant’s guilt of the primary offense is substantially the same as was introduced in the companion case of Blaylock v. State, 352 S.W. 2d 727, and shows:

Certain officers, armed with a search warrant, went to an apartment at the address named to search for narcotic drugs. When they arrived they looked into the apartment through a window and observed the appellant…