Valdez v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for unlawful possession of heroin; trial was before a jury. The punishment was assessed at thirty-five years.

Appellant was arrested in his residence pursuant to a search with warrant by Dallas police officers. The heroin was found on a table in the kitchen where appellant was seated, and certain other items (mostly narcotics paraphernalia) were found in another room which was occupied by other persons.

Appellant claims that the trial court erred in permitting counsel for the State to ask one of appellant’s character witnesses, on…