Jones v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is sale of Heroin; the punishment assessed by the jury, nineteen (19) years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The evidence reflects that Sam J. Roberts, a white employee of the Federal Food and Drug Administration, worked as an undercover narcotics agent between May and October, 1966, in cooperation with the Ft. Worth City police. Roberts testified that he posed as an unemployed rich boy from Dallas, that his work was mainly among colored people in the south Ft. Worth area. He related that during such time he became acquainted with the…