Roberts v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of possession of heroin; the punishment, which is enhanced by prior felony convictions, is imprisonment for life.

Two grounds of error are presented. The appellant urges that the heroin and his confession were both obtained unlawfully in violation of his constitutional rights; therefore, he says, they were erroneously admitted in evidence.

The heroin was obtained incident to the appellant’s arrest. He asserts that the State failed to show, at the time of trial, that there was probable cause for his war-rantless…