Opinion · Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Greer v. State
163 Tex. Crim. 377
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- Jurisdiction
- Texas
- Date
- 1956-06-27
- Topic
- general
former narcotic act does not authorize conviction for possessing small piece of wet cotton containing trace of heroin | former narcotic act does not authorize conviction for possessing small piece of wet cotton containing trace of heroin | acquittal; trace of narcotic on cotton used to wipe of needle after injection | acquittal; trace of narcotic on cotton used to wipe of needle after injection | trace amount of heroin on cotton in bottlecap | bottle cap and wet cotton
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Our original opinion is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.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,