Rent v. State

GRAVES, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was charged with the unlawful possession of barbiturates, and upon his trial before the court, he was found guilty and his punishment assessed at a fine of $500.00 and confinement in the county jail for a term of six months.

The testimony adduced upon the trial is to the effect that Cecil Rose, a member of the Texas Highway Patrol, on the 27th day of October, 1953, while patrolling Highway 75, about three miles south of Houston in Harris County, observed a 1953 Mercury automobile travelling down the road at a high rate of speed and “driving all over the road.”…