Stuart v. State

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for the unlawful possession of a narcotic drug, to wit, hashish; the punishment, thirty years.

The appellant contends that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to quash the indictment on the ground that the allegation in the indictment that he “did then and there unlawfully possess a narcotic drug, to wit, hashish” was a conclusion and does not allege the component parts of hashish.

Under the express terms of Article 725b, Sec. 1(13) (14), Vernon’s Ann.P.C., hashish is named as a narcotic drug. Having alleged the name of a particular drug as a…