Case Name: Jesse WHEELER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1956-11-28
Citations: 297 S.W.2d 184
Docket Number: No. 28581
Parties: Jesse WHEELER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 297
Pages: 184–185

Head Matter:
Jesse WHEELER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 28581.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 28, 1956.
No attorney for appellánt of record on appeal.
Hubert W. Green, Jr., Dist. Atty., San Antonio, Anthony Nicholas, jr., and Elbert Hooper, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., San Antonio, Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Judge.
This is a conviction for possessing marijuana, with punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary.
An officer of the city of San Antonio received a call to investigate an automobile parked on a city street. A search of the automobile revealed four marijuana cigarettes in an envelope behind the raised sun visor. The officer replaced the cigarettes where he had found them, and then backed and parked the police car nearby in order to watch the automobile searched. Later, appellant approached it, got in, and drove away. When the officer sounded his horn and told him to halt, appellant raised his hand to and flipped the sun visor, and stopped. As the officer came to the car he noticed appellant trying to push something under the front seat, where the cigarettes were found.
The automobile was owned by the appellant, but, testifying as a witness, he denied any knowledge on his part that the cigarettes were in the car.
The sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction presents the sole question for review.
Under the facts stated, the jury were authorized to conclude that appellant possessed the marijuana cigarettes.
The judgment is affirmed.