Lopez v. State

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Commissioner.

A jury convicted appellant of the offense of delivery of heroin. Punishment, enhanced by prior convictions, was set at confinement for life. The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged.

According to the State’s evidence, Detective Walter Mollier received information from a confidential informer that a person known as Wetto had some heroin for sale. Acting on that information, the officer and the informer went to a location in downtown El Paso in an attempt to locate Wetto. They were unable to find him, but while they were there they noticed the appellant…