Stevenson v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is the unlawful possession of marihuana, a narcotic drug; the punishment, 5 years.

Officer Gray, of the Narcotics Division of the Houston Police Department, testified that on May 20, 1959, he went to a garage apartment at 4315 Bastrop Street, in Harris County, where Lorenzo Jackson lived; went up the steps and through a screen door saw Lorenzo Jackson, Paley Grays, Flemin Gaskins and Willie Stevenson seated around a coffee table. Grays and Gaskins were smoking small cigarettes, the odor of which Officer Gray testified was, in his opinion, marihuana.

Officer Gray…