Mitchell v. State

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

Appellant in a trial before a jury was convicted of possession of heroin. Punish ment, assessed by the jury, is for twenty-five years.

Appellant initially asserts that the evidence is insufficient to show that he knowingly possessed the heroin.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the record reflects the following:

At about 9:30 P.M. on March 6, 1971, Officer Collins and three other members of the Port Arthur Police Department, dressed in plainclothes, executed a search warrant at the residence of Audrey Harris in Port Arthur. The officers approached the…