Platt v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is the unlawful possession of heroin; the punishment, enhanced by prior convictions, one for unlawfully breaking and entering a motor vehicle and the other for burglary; life.

Sentence was pronounced and notice of appeal given on December 22, 1965.

The evidence adduced before the jury reflects that shortly after 9 o’clock P.M. on Sunday, August 8, 1965, Houston Police Officer B. E. Majors of the Narcotics Division received information in connection with appellant, which information he conveyed by telephone to Police Officer T. A. Bell, who was at the Ben Taub Hospital…