Case Name: Dario Orona v. State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1955-11-23
Citations: 162 Tex. Crim. 234
Docket Number: No. 27,848
Parties: Dario Orona v. State
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 162
Pages: 234–235

Head Matter:
Dario Orona v. State
No. 27,848.
November 23, 1955
Murray J. Howze, Monahans, for appellant.
Leon Douglas, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state. ;

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Possessing marihuana is the offense; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.
Peace officers arrested appellant and Barrientes while they were seated in an automobile belonging to the latter's stepfather. A search of the automobile revealed a quantity of marihuana, and some marihuana cigarettes were found upon appellant's person.
By his written confession, appellant admitted that the possession of the marihuana was his and Barrientes' joint undertaking.
Appellant explained the possession of the marihuana cigarettes found upon his person by saying that they were in a pocket of a coat which he had borrowed from Barrientes and was wearing at the time, with no knowledge on his part that they were in the coat pocket.
This defensive theory was pertinently submitted to the jury by the trial court when he gave appellant's special requested charge on the subject.
No formal bills of exception appear.
No reversible error appearing, the judgment is affirmed.