Hicks v. State

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Commissioner.

In a jury trial appellant was convicted of possession of cocaine, a controlled substance. Punishment, enhanced by reason of a prior conviction, was set at thirty years’ confinement.

Appellant and a passenger were in appellant’s automobile in Galveston when they were stopped by officers of the Regional Crime Squad. A search of the car for narcotics was made but it produced nothing. The officers saw appellant make a moving motion toward his mouth, whereupon they forcibly removed from his mouth a particle of tin foil which contained a substance later identified as…