Legal Opinion
Griffin v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided August 21, 2001No. 06-00-00159-CRPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by
Chief Justice CORNELIUS.
An Upshur County jury convicted William Avery Griffin of possessing more than four but less than 200 grams of heroin. His punishment was enhanced by a prior conviction, and he was sentenced to twenty years’ detention and fined $1,000.00. In a single point of error, Griffin contends that the trial court erred by failing to grant his motion to suppress the heroin.
The testimony at the suppression hearing revealed that on September 30, 1999, Agent Ron Benge, of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Task Force in Tyler, received a tip from an…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Ohio v. RobinetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
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