Legal Opinion

Jerry Don Williams v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)

Decided March 5, 2013No. 07-12-00161-CRPublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BRIAN QUINN, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Jerry Don Williams, appeals his conviction for possession of a controlled substance in a drug free zone. His three issues involve the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress, its refusal to submit an article 38.23 instruction, and the sufficiency of the evidence underlying the drug free zone finding. We affirm.

Background

Appellant was arrested after driving a third party (Quinton) to a local motel. Quinton went there to consummate a drug transaction with a police informant, Battle. The latter had engaged in several prior transactions with…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Malik v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  2. State v. RossCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
  3. Madden v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2007
  4. Bigby v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1994
  5. State v. WoodardCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2011

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Smith v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2017
  2. Adrian Natividad AKA Adrian Natividad-Sinaloa v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2015
  3. Donald Ray King v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2018
  4. Jesse Daniel Sabedra, III v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)2017

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