Legal Opinion

Garcia v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 2, 1956No. 28306PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the possession of heroin; the punishment, 5 years.

Officer Shelton of the Houston Police Department testified that while cruising in a police automobile he observed four men standing in front of a grocery store, that when the men saw the police automobile they hurriedly entered the store, that he followed them into the store, that he found three of them standing near the door and told them to go outside where his partner was waiting. Shelton stated that he then saw the appellant at the back of the store some twenty feet from any other person, approached…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Jones v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1956

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Miller v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1970
  2. Mendez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1962
  3. Lopez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1961
  4. Slaughter v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1958
  5. Sutton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1958

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