Davis v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the possession of heroin; the punishment, 60 years.

Officer Stringfellow of the narcotics division of the Houston Police Department testified, in the absence of the jury, on the question of the legality of the search, that he and his fellow officers, after having received certain information, watched the appellant’s home for two or three days before they made the affidavit.

In the presence of the jury, he testified that as he and other officers arrived at the appellant’s home armed with a search warrant, he found the appellant seated on the back steps…