Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Droppleman

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 7, 1962No. 35235PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MORRISON, Judge.

Petitioner, an inmate of the Texas Prison System, brings this application for writ of habeas corpus directly in this Court alleging that upon his plea of guilty in the Criminal District Court of Travis County to an indictment charging him with possessing a narcotic drug, to-wit, morphine, “the prosecution wholly failed to introduce any evidence of guilt as to the fact that your Petitioner possessed a narcotic drug * * * ” and, further, that such failure “constitutes fundamental error and renders the judgment of conviction and sentence thereon void and subject to collateral…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Ex Parte KingCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1951
  2. Ex Parte StewartCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1954

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Higginbotham v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973
  2. Satery v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1970
  3. Pointer v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1971
  4. Haggerty v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973
  5. Kelley v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1989

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