Legal Opinion
Figueroa v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided November 30, 1971No. 43970PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ONION, Presiding Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for possession of heroin with the punishment being assessed at 15 years.
The record reflects that on September 16, 1969, Corpus Christi police officers, by virtue of a search warrant, searched appellant’s home and took the children to a neighbor’s house. The appellant was not home at the time. He and his wife arrived some 30 to 45 minutes later and were placed under arrest and taken into the house. There Sgt. Castro asked the appellant where the heroin was and told him the officers “were there for the heroin” and that if he did…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Payne v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Malinski v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Orozco v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by36 opinions
- Wicker v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1987
- Payne v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
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- Ross v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1984
- Cannady v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
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