Thomas v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the possession of marijuana; the punishment five years.

Officer Boyd testified that “a stool pigeon” whom he had known for some time and whom he knew to have been to the Federal penitentiary for a violation of the Mann Act came to the city hall and told him, in company with Officers Cantrell and Hart, that the appellant had almost a pound of marijuana and “was also messing with our safes.” The record does not disclose that their informant told the officers how he had learned these things about the appellant, nor did he tell them that he had ever seen…