Legal Opinion
Gill v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided December 23, 1981No. 62833PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROBERTS, Judge.
This appeal presents a question about the propriety of officers’ breaking into the locked trunk of an automobile after finding a small quantity of suspected contraband in the passenger compartment. The appellant moved to suppress the fruit of such a search, and the trial court overruled his motion. We agree that that was error. We shall reverse the judgment, which was based on verdicts of a jury that found the appellant guilty of possessing hydromor-phone and that assessed a punishment of 5 years’ confinement and a $5,000 fine.
The events which preceded the search of the…
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3Cited by59 opinions
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