Betancourt v. State

PEARSON, Judge.

The appellant was adjudged guilty after trial by the court of the crime of unlawful possession of marijuana. He was sentenced to three years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. This appeal is from the judgment and sentence.

Appellant’s single point on appeal turns upon the legality of his arrest. It is urged that the court erred in admitting into evidence appellant’s admission that he had left a package in a taxicab and a police officer’s testimony that upon later search of the taxicab the officer found a package of what proved to be marijuana. The package was also admitted…