Irvine v. State

OPINION

HEDGES, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant, Joseph Willie Irvine, for possession of a controlled substance. Finding the allegations in two enhancement paragraphs to be true, the jury assessed his punishment at 25-years confinement. We affirm.

Officers Wilburn and Cooper arrested appellant for public intoxication after observing him staggering in the street toward an apartment complex for which they were working security. Their search of his person produced a number of small baggies that contained what appeared to be crack cocaine. Subsequent tests confirmed the nature of the substance.…