Gilmore v. State

OPINION

DRAUGHN, Justice.

A jury found appellant, Freddie Lee Gilmore, guilty of possessing cocaine, weighing less than twenty-eight (28) grams. After finding enhancement paragraphs true regarding prior convictions for delivery of cocaine and burglary of a motor vehicle, the jury assessed punishment at thirty-five (35) years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. We affirm.

After twice observing appellant walk up to cars entering a parking lot of Nathan’s Lounge, a small bar in a high crime area, Houston Police Officers M.G. Miller and Thomas Hayes drove into the lot. Appellant…