Coats v. State

OPINION

FARRIS, Justice.

Billy Eugene Coats was convicted by a jury of possession of less than twenty-eight grams of methamphetamine and sentenced to fifteen years in the Texas Department of Corrections. See TEX.REV.CIV.STAT. ANN. art. 4476-15, sec. 4.041 (Vernon Supp.1989).

Coats raises six points of error on appeal. In points one and two, Coats complains the trial court erred in admitting evidence seized as a result of an illegal, pretextual arrest and in failing to charge the jury on the issue of probable cause for the stop and search. In his third point, Coats alleges error in the court’s…