Sutton v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is possession of heroin; the punishment life.

Officer Stringfellow of the narcotics division of the Houston police force testified, in the absence of the jury on the issue of probable cause, that on the night in question he received information from a woman he knew named Maxine that the appellant would soon thereafter be leaving his home in his automobile to make a delivery of heroin and that he proceeded at once, in company with his fellow officer Gray, to the appellant’s home, which was only a short distance away. Before the jury, he and Gray testified…