Giacona v. State

298 S.W.2d 587 (1957)

Rosle GIACONA, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 28620.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 9, 1957.

Tom Sanders, Joe J. Newman, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Eugene Brady and Thomas D. White, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The offense is the possession of marijuana; the punishment, ten years in the penitentiary.

A member of the narcotics division of the police department of the city of Houston had information that Pete Giacona was in a certain automobile at a…