Doby v. State

383 S.W.2d 418 (1964)

Curtis Gale DOBY, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 37014.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 3, 1964.

Rehearing Denied October 28, 1964.

Orville A. Harlan, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, James C. Brough and James I. Smith, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the unlawful possession of a narcotic drug; the punishment, enhanced by a previous conviction in 1953 for passing a forged instrument and a conviction for burglary in…