The following are summaries of selected criminal opinions issued by the Third Court of Appeals from April 2023. The summaries are overviews; please review the entire opinions. The subsequent history is current as of Sept. 5, 2023.
EVIDENTIARY SUFFICIENCY – DRUG POSSESSION: Evidence was sufficient to prove that defendant possessed methamphetamine.
Sumrall v. State, No. 03-21-00402-CR (Tex. App.—Austin Apr. 6, 2023, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication).
Officers initiated a traffic stop of a vehicle in which Sumrall was sitting in the front passenger seat. The officers searched the vehicle and found methamphetamine in a zippered canvas bag on the driver side of the vehicle and in a Ziploc bag within a plastic Walmart shopping bag on the floorboard of the passenger side of the vehicle.