Alvarez v. State

OPINION

DORSEY, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant Maria Guadalupe Alvarez of possession of marihuana and assessed punishment at 3 years imprisonment plus a $4,000.00 fine. 1 Appellant brings four points of error concerning evi-dentiary sufficiency, collateral estoppel, the admissibility of evidence procured under a search warrant, and the trial court’s failure to grant a mistrial. We reverse and remand.

In October of 1985, Manuel Garcia of the McAllen Police Department initiated a narcotics investigation in Perezville, Texas, after receiving information from a confidential informant. After the…