Doby v. State

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the unlawful possession of a narcotic drug; the punishment, enhanced by a previous conviction in 19S3 for passing a forged instrument and a conviction for burglary in 1956, life.

Officers, searching an apartment under authority of a search warrant, saw the appellant throw a glass jar out the back door; throw a package containing a syringe, a needle and eye droppers, which hit one of the officers and fell to the floor, and drop a plastic package which he was restrained from placing in his mouth.

The package dropped was recovered from the floor and was…