Fuller v. State

PRICE, Judge.

The indictment, omitting the formal parts, charged that defendant on or about the 20th day of April, 1956, did unlawfully possess seven and one-quarter grains of morphine. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. This was defendant’s third conviction for violation of the State narcotics laws. He was sentenced, under the provisions of Section 255, Title 22, Code 1940, to the penitentiary for a term of ten years.

The State presented evidence by Federal narcotic agents tending to show that the defendant did on the 20th day of April, 1956, purchase and possess one quart of paregoric,…