Case Name: Elizabeth GREER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1956-06-27
Citations: 292 S.W.2d 122
Docket Number: No. 28192
Parties: Elizabeth GREER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 292
Pages: 122–122

Head Matter:
Elizabeth GREER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 28192.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 27, 1956.
Howze & Howze, by John Howze, Mona-hans, for appellant.
Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
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Our original opinion is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.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.,, , s, ,. , •
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 causé is remanded, .ánd-the; state's-motion for rehearing is overruled. • - : u i -
Opinion approved by tlie .Court,