Coleman v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROBERTS, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for possession of cocaine. The jury assessed punishment at two years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.
Appellant was alleged to have intentionally possessed an unweighable quantity of cocaine: a trace amount. The record reveals that 1/280,000 of an ounce is weigha-ble.
Other than the chemist’s testimony, and that of the witness from the Automobile Records Department of Bell County who identified appellant as being the record owner of the vehicle in which he was stopped while driving, the only evidence presented by the…
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