Terrill v. State

OPINION

KEITH, Commissioner.

Appellant was charged with the possession of a usable quantity of marihuana in an amount of less than two ounces. In a trial to the court he was found guilty and his punishment fixed at confinement in jail for thirty days.

His first ground of error challenges sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction, the thrust of the argument being that the State failed to show that he exercised care, control and management over the marihuana and that he knew it was contraband.

Upon the date in question, at approximately 2:16 a. m., Irving Police Officer Taylor, along…