Vela v. State

McDonald, judge.

The offense is unlawful possession of marijuana; the punishment, two years in the state penitentiary.

The evidence reflects that Joe Kinder, an undercover agent for the Narcotics Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety, went to Corpus Christi at the request of Ranger, Frank Horger; that Kinder had been trained by the State and by the Treasury Department, Bureau of Narcotics.

Kinder testified that in Corpus Christi he associated with disreputable characters; went to beer joints and to a marijuana party, but did not smoke any marijuana; that on the 6th of December, 1962,…