Etchieson v. State

McDonald, Judge.

The offense is the unlawful possession of a narcotic drug, marijuana; the punishment, twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

The evidence shows that Dallas police officers, pursuant to a search warrant, entered an apartment in which appellant was present as a guest; that the apartment was rented by two girls, Billie Yvonne Coleman and Donnie Ray Stringfellow Ogle. We shall not here relate further details other than to state that the officers did retrieve a vial from appellant containing what was later chemically established to be marijuana of sufficient quantity to make one…