Brown v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the possesison of marijuana; the punishment, six years.

State Highway Patrolman Mayfield testified that on the night in question, while on routine patrol accompanied by his friend Haney, his attention was attracted to an automobile being driven at an excessive rate of speed, which he approximated at seventy miles per hour. Mayfield stated that he turned around and gave chase and that the chase continued for more than ten miles, during the course of which he attained a speed of ninety miles per hour. The witness stated that when he finally overtook the automobile…