Vines v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for the unlawful sale of marijuana; the punishment, five years.

Our disposition of the case renders unnecessary a recitation of the facts other than to observe that to sustain the conviction the state relied upon the fruits of the search of a certain house in the city of Lubbock by Sgt. Bill Bessent and other officers of the Lubbock police department, under the authority of a search warrant.

Prior to Officer Bessent’s testifying relative to the search and the fruits thereof, appellant timely objected on the ground that it had not been shown that the search…