Stein v. State

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

Appellant in a jury trial held in October, 1972, was convicted of possession of marihuana. Punishment was assessed at ten years’ and one day confinement.

Sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict is not questioned by any ground of error. Hence a short statement as to the nature of the case will suffice, and more detailed evidence will be noted where applicable to each ground of error.

On March 3, 1972, at about 10:00 P.M., two Dallas undercover police officers, K. W. Harris and James Barksdale, observed appellant stop his van on a side street in Dallas.…