Jumper v. State

OPINION

HOLMAN, Justice.

This appeal is from conviction of commercial obscenity. V.T.C.A., Penal Code sec. 43.23.

Upon the jury’s verdict of guilty, the jury assessed punishment at 180 days’ confinement and $1,000.00 fine.

We affirm.

On May 1, 1978, undercover Fort Worth police officer Thomas W. Richardson and undercover officer Dodd went to the Triangle News Stand on E. Lancaster in Fort Worth.

They posed as college students from a local university, and asked an employee of the newsstand, Michael Maddox, if he could sell them some “party” films.

*504The officers returned on the 3rd of May and met…