Translate
Text Highlighter

Bookmark

PDF

Share

Report a problem
AMICUS AI
Citation Codes
Equivalent Citations
citation codes
Docket Number
Attorney(S)
Judges
Are you a practicing lawyer?
Enhance your digital presence and reach by creating a Casemine profile.
Upload pleading to use the new AI search
Cites
Cited by
Citation Codes
Equivalent Citations
citation codes
Docket Number
Attorney(S)
Judges

Elizabeth GREER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

BELCHER, Commissioner.

Our original opinion is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.

The conviction is for the possession of heroin, a narcotic drug; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

The testimony of two police officers shows that the appellant had in her possession a small bottle cap in which was a small piece of wet cotton.

The chemist testified that he extracted the contents of the bottle top with hot water and evaporated that to dryness and ran tests on the residue which indicated that the material extracted from the cotton was heroin.

We do not construe the Uniform Narcotics Act as authorizing a conviction for possessing a small piece of wet cotton containing a trace of a narcotic such as may have been wiped from a needle following an injection.

The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded, and the state's motion for rehearing is overruled.

Opinion approved by the Court.

Use AI to get other relevant cases.

Comments

GREER v. STATE
(Jun 27, 1956)