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- Title: Robert Alan Phenix v. State Texas
- Author : Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- Release Date : January 19, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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At approximately 6:00 p.m., April 24, 1970, Officers Webb, Gonzales and Williams of the Travis County Sheriffs Department executed a warrant for the search of appellants garage apartment. As the officers entered the apartment, the appellant, who had opened the door for them, was observed putting what appeared to be a "kilo" or brick-shaped package of marihuana into a paper sack. Officer Webb remarked, "Well, now what do you suppose that is?" to which appellant replied, "Well, you know what it is." The officers then escorted the appellant into the adjoining room and proceeded to advise him of his constitutional rights as provided in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966). The officers search of the premises revealed three "lids," i.e., plastic bags, containing one ounce of marihuana; a handwritten note that was on top of the desk; four marihuana cigarette butts, or "roaches," containing a total of.58 grams of marihuana in an ashtray in the living room; a brown tobacco pouch with two cigarettes containing.67 grams of marihuana; a billfold containing $373.00; a plastic bag containing 363.42 grams of marihuana; a plastic vial, or capsule, containing 1.62 grams of hashish; a yellow bowl containing 33.85 grams of marihuana; a "sifter"; a twenty-five pound capacity set of scales with measurements graduated into ounces; two boxes of plastic "baggies"; wrappers and cellophane bags with marihuana residue in them that were retrieved from two wastebaskets; a "brick" of marihuana weighing 849 grams; and the "kilo" of marihuana weighing 1,768 grams. There was testimony that a total of 3018.44 grams of marihuana and hashish was discovered in the apartment.