Court Opinion

ID: 9675505
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:55:52.188986+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:34.995291
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WOODLEY, Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the holding that the evidence is sufficient to sustain this conviction.
This court should avail itself of this opportunity to overrule rather than reaffirm the rule engrafted upon the narcotic statutes in Pelham v. State, 164 Texas Cr. Rep. 226, 298 S.W. 2d 171, requiring proof not only that the accused possessed a narcotic, which is a violation of the statute, but that he possessed “an amount sufficient to be applied to the use commonly made thereof.”
If there is any lawful use which is made of marihuana I cannot conceive what it is. If the state must establish how this narcotic is unlawfully used and then prove the possession of a sufficient quantity for that purpose, then possession of a narcotic drug is not in itself unlawful, though the legislature has so provided.