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432 S.W.2d 917

Marshall v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 9, 1968

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1968-10-09

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1968

1 state decisions

Relies on 137 Tex. Crim. 14 - Fawcett v. State · 168 Tex. Crim. 49 - Gonzalez v. State · Gonzales v. State

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Decided 1968-10-09

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¶1OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

¶2The conviction is for the possession of marihuana; the punishment, fifty years.

¶3The sole ground urged as error is that:

“The Indictment in this case is too vague, general, and indefinite to apprise *918the defendant of the charge against him, and will not support a conviction.”

¶4The indictment alleges that the appellant did “on or about the 24th day of August,” 1968, “ unlawfully possess a narcotic drug, to-wit: marihuana.”

¶5No motion was made to quash the indictment.

¶6The allegations of the indictment are sufficient to charge the offense of possession of marihuana. Willson’s Tex.Crim.Forms 7th Ed. Sec. 942 ; 3 Branch 2d 355, Sec. 1423.2; Fawcett v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 127 S.W.2d 905; Fletcher v. State, 162 Tex.Cr.R. 100, 282 S.W.2d 230; Gonzales v. State, 163 Tex.Cr.R. 432, 293 S.W.2d 786; Gonzalez v. State, 168 Tex.Cr.R. 49, 323 S.W. 2d 55.

¶7The judgment is affirmed.

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