Cerda v. State

*636 OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Presiding Judge, BAIRD, MANSFIELD, KELLER, PRICE, HOLLAND and WOMACK, Judges, joined.

Appellant was convicted of possession of marijuana and sentenced to twenty years confinement and a $10,000 fine.

On appeal appellant claimed the trial court should have granted her motion to suppress because the search of her vehicle was involuntary and warrantless. Pursuant to its own opinion in State v. Guzman, 942 S.W.2d 41 (Tex.App.—Corpus Christi 1997), the Court of Appeals held that because there was probable cause but no exigent…