Maples v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The indictment charges the possession of “Morphine Sulphate.” Appellant was found guilty as charged and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He appeals.

For the State Mobile Police Sergeant O. L. Mosley testified that while on routine patrol about eleven a. m., May 29, 1966, he observed defendant and a man named Paul Cazalas at the intersection of Mobile Street and Springhill Avenue. As he approached them he radioed for another police car to come to the scene. While waiting for reinforcements he asked the men for identification. After the arrival…