Franklin v. State

OPINION

JACKSON, Commissioner.

Conviction by a jury on a plea of not guilty of possession of a narcotic drug, to-wit, marihuana; the punishment, nineteen (19) years.

Armed with a search warrant on July 8, 1970, four police officers went to apartment 201 in the Big Tex Apartments at 1628 East Hattie in Ft. Worth. They searched the apartment and found a white beer cooler in the bedroom containing three brown paper bags and eight plastic bags containing marihuana, a total of 3.4 pounds, enough to make 3,000 average cigarettes, and a brass pipe ordinarily used to smoke marihuana. In the closet in a…