Devine v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for unlawfully possessing a narcotic; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The prosecution arose under what is known as the Uniform' Narcotic Drug Act, being Chap. 169, Acts 45th Legislature, in 1937,- as amended, and appearing as Art. 725b, Vernon’s Penal Code, which will be hereafter referred to as the Act.

The indictment contained multiple counts charging that appellant did on the 12th day of May, 1945, (a) unlawfully possess a narcotic drug, to wit, dilaudid, a derivative of opium, (b) unlawfully possess a narcotic drug, to wit, dilaudid…