Garrett v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for promotion of prostitution under our present Penal Code. 1 After a trial before the court, the trial judge assessed the appellant’s punishment at six months’ confinement in the Harris County jail.

The appellant contends that the evidence was insufficient and that the trial judge abused his discretion by overruling the appellant’s motion for new trial. We affirm.

The record reveals that on December 2, 1975, Officer W. F. Hosea of the Houston Police Department vice squad received information from a confidential informant that two males,…