Mendez v. State

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The appeal is from a SO year sentence assessed by the jury following trial upon indictment alleging the unlawful possession of heroin and a prior conviction for possession of marijuana.

The prior conviction, in the same court in which the present indictment was returned, was shown by records of the Texas Department of Corrections including certified copies of the judgment and sentence and finger prints; and appellant’s identity as the person so convicted was shown by the testimony of Officer E. G. Knowles, finger print classifier and expert in that field, who compared…