OPINION
Thе offense is Possession of Heroin; the punishment, assessed by the trial court against each appellant, twenty-five (25) years confinement in the Texаs Department of Corrections.
We do not deem a complete recitation of the facts necessary. The evidence reveals a trip from Corpus Christi to the Mexican border by the two appellants, co-indictee Tommy Green, and a woman companion who was latеr revealed to be a police informant; the purchase by Green of heroin in Miquel Aléman, Mexico; the secreting of such heroin by the three men on the Texas side before the foursome re-crossed the border at Laredo, Texas, and the subsequent arrest of the three men in Corpus Christi on Aрril 16, 1966, when the heroin purchased in Mexico was found in the rear seat of Green’s automobile where the two appellants were riding. At the time of thе arrest, eight bottles of “dangerous drugs” were discovered in the possession of the appellant McManus.
Appellants initially contend that the trial court erred in overruling their pretrial motion for discovery generally requesting production of “all statements, documents and evidence now in thе possession of police officers or the District Attorney of Nueces County.” We recently held that a similar motion was too broad to be еffective. Smith v. State, Tex.Cr.App.,
In overruling the discovery motion, the trial court did not abuse its discretion with consequent prejudice to the appellants.
Appellants next claim the trial court erred in failing to grant their separate motions for severance in view of the prior convictions of each. Such motions were not filed until the date of the trial and alleged that each appellant had a рrior conviction, but for different types of offenses. There is no showing in the record that these convictions or their nature were introduced into еvidence before the jury. At the penalty stage of the proceedings before the court, the prior convictions were stipulated to by the appellants. Such stipulations revealed that the appellant Sonderup had two prior burglary convictions and a misdemeanor conviction for possession of dangerous drugs, and that the appellant McManus had a previous felony theft conviction as well as a previоus burglary conviction.
Severance is no longer a matter of right, but rests within the sound discretion of the court. Article 36.09, V.A.C.C.P. We cannot conclude, under the fаcts here presented, that the trial court abused its discretion and that a joint trial was prejudicial to the appellants.
Appellants further urge that the trial court erred in failing to hear evidence on their motions to suppress filed on the morning the trial began. The court was
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not required to hеar such untimely filed motions for the same reasons set forth recently in Bosley v. State, Tex.Cr.App.
If we understаnd the next ground of error of the appellants, it is that these convictions cannot stand because the statement of facts reveal a сase of entrapment. The issue of entrapment was submitted to the jury by the careful trial judge in his charge and was resolved against appellant’s contention by the jury’s general verdict.
Appellants still further urge that the punishment assessed by the trial judge was cruel and unusual and lacked uniformity with the punishment eаrlier assessed against the co-indictee, Tommy Green, who had actually purchased the heroin and devised the means to smuggle it across the Mеxican border. The record reveals that prior to the trial of the case at bar, the co-indictee Green, who was represented by different counsel, entered a plea of guilty to the indictment before a different District Judge in the same county and upon the evidence adducеd at said trial was assessed a punishment of eight (8) years. The sentences imposed on the appellants were within the range of penalties prescribed by the Legislature, Article 725b, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., and do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Hunt v. State,
Lastly, the appellants themselves complained that the trial court erred in overruling their motion for new trial alleging jury misconduct, in that the jurors discussed punishment despite the court’s written instruction to consider only the issue of guilt оr innocence. In accordance with the requirements of Article 37.07, Sec. 2(a), V.A.C.C.P., the court, in submitting the issue of guilt or innocence, instructed the jury in its charge as to the punishment provided by law for the offense charged. Testimony on the motion for new trial revealed that the jurors had discussed in their deliberations on the issue of guilt or innocence the evidence elicited from the co-indictee Green, a defense witness, that he had receivеd an eight year sentence, but the disputed issue of whether the jurors had considered what punishment would be assessed in arriving at their verdict of guilty was resolved against the appellants by the trial court’s ruling on such motion.
The Texas Civil Liberties Union has filed an amicus curiae brief on the behalf of the apрellant McManus. Such brief first contends that the trial court deprived the appellant McManus of his Fourteenth Amendment rights by failing to give an appropriate instruction to the jury that the testimony of an informer must be examined with greater scrutiny than that of an ordinary witness. Acknowledging the fact that such “error” was not assigned, the brief, nevertheless, insists that the same be considered as unassigned error in the interest of justice. Article 40.09, Sec. 13, V.A.C.C.P. We observed at the outset that no objection on this basis was addressed to the court’s charge nor was a special charge thereon requested. Articles 36.14 and 36.15, V.A.C.C.P. Thе ground of error is not before us for consideration.
The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain McManus’s conviction in “acting together” to pоssess the heroin as charged in the indictment is challenged next by the amicus curiae brief. Without a recitation of all the facts, we conclude that the testi
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mony of appellant McManus’s knowledge of the purpose of the trip to the border was to buy narcotics, his knowledge that Green had purchased the heroin, and his subsequent assistance in hiding the heroin in a beer can prior to crossing the border again at Laredo is sufficient, when taken together with all the facts and circumstances, to sustain the jury’s verdict. See Middleton v. State,
Finding no reversible error, the judgment is affirmed.