Legal Opinion

Byers v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 5, 1958No. 29290PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is the unlawful possession of marihuana; the punishment, five years.

The original opinion reversed this conviction upon the theory that the person executing the search warrant was not authorized to do so. That opinion is withdrawn upon authority of our holding to the contrary in Glaze v. State, No. 29,343, 165 Tex. Cr. Rep. 626, and Art. 326K-6 V.C.S., Sec. 1, therein cited.

O. E. Henson, investigator for the district attorney’s office, and Gus Zgourides, assistant district attorney of Galveston County, went to a house in Galveston with…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Cope v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1931

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Ramos v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1967
  2. Gillingham v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1958
  3. Costilla v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1959
  4. Costilla v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1959
  5. Deason v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1959

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