Legal Opinion

Greer v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 27, 1956No. 28192PublishedCited by 48 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BELCHER, Commissioner.

Our original opinion is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.

The conviction is for the possession of heroin, a narcotic drug; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

The testimony of two police officers shows that the appellant had in her possession a small bottle cap in which was a small piece of wet cotton.

The chemist testified that he" extracted the contents of the bottle top with hot water and evaporated that, to dryness and ran tests on the residue which indicated that the material extracted from the cotton was heroin.,, ,, s, ,. , •

We do not…

2Cited by48 opinions

  1. Pelham v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1957
  2. State v. MorenoArizona Supreme Court · 1962
  3. Edelin v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1967
  4. Tomlin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1960
  5. Shults v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979

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