Maldonado v. State

OPINION

HEDGES, Justice.

The trial court below found appellant, Alfonso Maldonado, guilty of the offense of possession of a controlled substance weighing less than 28 grams and sentenced him to four-years confinement. In three points of error, appellant complains of the trial court’s ruling on his pretrial motion to suppress evidence. We affirm.

Harris County Deputy Sheriff Steven Theis was on patrol on February 9, 1992, when an unidentified man flagged down his patrol car. The man told Deputy Theis that an Hispanic man with a scraggly beard, wearing blue jeans and a dirty gray jacket, was…