¶1Unlawful possession of heroin is the offense; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.
¶2Accompanying the record is appellant’s personal affidavit requesting the dismissal of the appeal. The request is granted. The appeal is dismissed.
293 S.W.2d 781
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided October 10, 1956
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1956-10-10
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1956-10-10
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1989 · most notably 40 Ill. 2d 4 - The People v. Mills (1968), Hollins v. State (1978)
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.