Spriggins v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the possession of Marihuana; the punishment twenty-five years. This is a companion case to Dickerson v. State, this day decided.

Officers from Lea County, New Mexico, received information that a quantity of a substance which resembled Marihuána was hidden in the base of a wind-

mill just over the state line in Gaines County, Texas. The sheriff of said last named county inspected the windmill, found three bags of Marihuana hidden therein, took one, left two and set up a “stake out”. The packages were described by one witness as “medium size, like you get out of a…