Sutton v. State

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for the possession of marihuana, a narcotic drug; and the punishment was assessed at twenty-five years.

The appellant urges as a ground of error that he was denied the protection of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when the trial court admitted, over objection, his admission that he lived in the apartment where the marihuana was found.

Officers Gardner and Newton were stationed at the rear of the apartment in Snider Plaza during the execution of the search warrant for the apartment by other officers. During this…