Hamilton v. State

OPINION

PHILLIPS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for possession of heroin. Punishment is imprisonment for four years.

In a single ground of error appellant complains that the heroin admitted into evidence at trial was the product of an unlawful arrest. We affirm.

On October 6,1976, El Paso police officer Steve Santana, fellow officer Antonio Franco, and some other officers were engaged in surveillance of a known heroin dealer named Yolanda Garcia in the downtown area of El Paso, based on information received from an unnamed informer. The officers observed Garcia enter the Coney Island…