Biggers, Darren Lamont

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS NO. PD-0309-20 DARREN LAMONT BIGGERS, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW FROM THE SEVENTH COURT OF APPEALS COOKE COUNTY KELLER, P.J., filed a dissenting opinion. The legislature has decided that possession of codeine in cough syrup without a prescription should be penalized less harshly than possession of codeine that is not in cough syrup. Possession of codeine is a penalty group 4 substance when it is combined with another medicine, the other medicine is present in a proportion sufficient to confer valuable…