Braggs v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is possession of a narcotic drug; the punishment, 8 years.

The conviction must be reversed for two reasons.

The examining trial testimony of Officer Chavez was read into the record by agreement, which relates how he recovered a yellow cellophane capsule from appellant. In order to show that such capsule contained heroin, we find the following, “I then took that capsule and turned it over to the City Chemist Robert F. Crawford, who ran a chemical analysis on the capsule and found that it contained heroin.” No testimony from Crawford appears in the record. It…