Brodnex v. State

OPINION

in which Johnson, Keasler, Hervey, Alcala, Richardson, Yeary, and Newell, JJ., joined.

Appellant was charged with the offenses of tampering with physical evidence and possession of a controlled substance after he was stopped by police and found to be carrying crack cocaine. Appellant filed a pretrial motion to suppress the evidence, which the trial court denied.' After a bench trial, the trial court acquitted Appellant of the tampering offense but found him guilty of' the possession offense. Appellant pled true to three enhancement paragraphs, and the trial court sentenced him to twenty…