McCown v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is possession of morphine, with a prior conviction for possession of marijuana plead for enhancement; the punishment, 20 years.

Officer Hightower of the Houston police testified that, while armed with a search warrant and in company with other officers, he went to a certain address in the city; that the other officers waited at the front while he walked down the sidewalk at the side of the apartment house, from where he was able to see inside the ground floor apartment No. 9, and there observed appellant in company with another person seated on the bed;…