Davis v. State

DICE, Judge.

Upon a trial before the court without a jury appellant was convicted of unlawfully possessing policy paraphernalia and his punishment assessed at confinement in jail for 60 days.

The state’s evidence shows that on the day in question Officers L. W. Cook and Edwin D. Coombs went to the residence of William Wesley Varnell at 1216% Summer Street in the city of Houston for the purpose of executing a search warrant for policy paraphernalia. While searching the residence the telephone rang and an unidentified voice said “to meet him at the corner of Goliad and Crockett Streets at the…