Meridyth v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JOHN HILL, Chief Justice (Ret.).
Appellant Robert Lee Meridyth appeals his conviction by a jury of .the offense of possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, in an amount of less than one gram. The court, citing Appellant’s two prior felony convictions, assessed his punishment at ten years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. Appellant contends in three issues that the trial court abused its discretion by overruling his motion to suppress, that the trial court erred by overruling his objection to an argument by the State that was a comment on his…
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