Campbell v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the possession of narcotic drugs; the punishment, seven years.

Police officers of the city of Fort Worth and State Narcotic Agents armed with a search warrant, searched appellant’s apartment and there found three bottles which contained a total of 294 tablets which were shown by the testimony of a chemist to be morphine or dihydromorphinone, a derivative of morphine. Appellant was arrested when he entered the apartment by means of a key. His landlady testified that she had rented the apartment to appellant and had seen him coming and going therefrom.

Appellant did…