Howard v. State

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

Sidney Lartez Howard was convicted in a nonjury trial of cocaine possession and assessed punishment at fifteen years’ confinement and a $1,000.00 fine. His sole point of error on appeal is that the trial court erroneously overruled his motion to suppress evidence because it was obtained in an illegal search. We overrule this point and affirm the trial court’s judgment.

Police saw Howard at about 9:00 p.m. on May 5, 1994, near a shooting location to which the police had been called. Officer Albert Ruff testified that when he and Officer McKinney arrived at the…