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**d OFFICE**  **OF THE**  **ATTORNEY GENERAL**  **OF** TEXAS

**AUSTIN**

Honorable t*u A. #fAdox county Attoxvmy ?a10 ?lnto County ?a10 Pinto, Texalr

lie against a’- Code, V&MI a a roldLar in f Tour letter of reonthe above 8tated laint will properly olr~J39 of the Penal
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. The artiole quoted 18 inolnded in ChWtez 4 Of Title the Penal Code, ontitled ‘Arrert andCustody **ai** Prieoner8.”Honorable Edgar A. Maddox, Pago 2

Article 346,Penal Code, (aama chapter end title) reads as tol1OVBl

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tioer, ’ as use6 la this chapter, la meant any peaoo officer, as sheriff, deputr aheoift, oonatable, marahal or policeman of a city or tovn, eq jailer or guard, or any personl peci&lly authoriaed by varrant to arrest.’
Artlola kl, Codeof Criminal Procedure, to vhich you refer, reads:

“Harshaharitt shell bo a oonarrvator 

## of the poaoo In hla oouaty, 4nd ahall arrest all ottendara against the lava of the State, in hla vfn or hearing, andtake thembrtore the proper oourtfor l

xarinatioa or trial. He shall quell and l

uppwaa all assaults and batteries, l

tfcayr, insurrections and unlavful aaae8ibliea. Heahall apprehend end COPmtt to jail all ottandera4 until im examinetion or trial canbehad,

Artlole 339,Panal Code, aupra, has been said to relate to andprohibit reslataaor to praoe officers. Harleaa ‘II. Mate, 53Tex. Cr. R. 319, 109 9. V. 934. In addition to the l.iritation lmpoaod byLrtiole 346,supra, vo bireot your attention to the provisions oi Artiole 36,Oodeof Criminal Prooadure, vhhh vb quote1

“Th*following are ‘peace oftiaerart the aherltt and his deputies, oonatable, the marsh1 or polloemen ot.an lnoorporatad tovnoc city, the ottioera, non-ooaaalaaionod ottioera end privates of the stat0 ranger force, and any private person apeoia.);lp appointed to execute ori.mlnal prooeaa. Thus ve see that there is no provision madefor the rpplioatloa of Artiole 339, Penal Code, vhen the arrest is attempted by a ailitery policeman of the United States army. Articles 3 and 7 of our Penal Codewould neemapplicabla) Artlole 3reads in pert that ‘po person shall be punished for say aot or omlasion, unless the sameis aads, l penal offense, and apenaltq ia affixed thereto bp the vrltten hV of this State.” Artiole 7 ooatalna this l-get ë*l laad no poraon ahall be punlahed for an offense vhioh is not madepen81 by the plain impwt of the vorda of alar.aHonorable Bdgar A. Maddox, Page 3

Amilitary polices&an, as auoh, to not chargdd vlth the duty of enioraing tha provlalo~a of the Taxes Psaal Code. Himactlrltlar are regulated by andhe ia amenable to regulations of the liar Departaant , orders of hL4 superior ofSit34rr and statutes of tha United States. In time of var all ottensea commltted by soldiers an oognizable bTcourts-martial or milltary oossaiaalona. In time of peaoe aperson In the mllltary aarvloe who, ln ary portion of a State not vlthln the exclusive juriadiotfon of the United States , eoamita a orhl.aal ottanae racognised md madepunishable br the lava of the State la amenable to the State oourta for such offense. Suchjurfsdlction la clear17 reoognlaed by the seventy-fourth artiole of var provldlng for the dellrev of such offenders to the olvil authorities when they are charged vlth otfanaea vhich are pualahable by the ?.ava of tha land,’ Se4 5 Corpus Juria 367, 82258 10 U, S, C. A, I 1546, Title lo-Army.

Drunkenema in apublfo plaoe is not vithin itrelt such anoffense as till justi- an arrest vithout avarrant even vhen -de by o$e of the apeoitioally namedpeace officers, except olty policemen, olt]r marshals and chiefs of polloe. See Bennett v. State, 136 Tex. Cr. R. 192, 124 S. W.(26) 359.

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tteot aproseoutloa for aviolation OS Article 339, supra., the information or indlotment must allege vhether the arrest wassought br virtue of a vamaat or olthout‘on4, and in order to sustain aooavlotlon, the State vould be required to prove faeta rhovfng under vhioh olruumatanoe?. It the &rreat vaa attslpgted without a varrant, the 1egalltJ of au& arrest vould be eaaantial to uphold the judgment. Ra.rlaaa
v. State, aupraj Sh4v v. State, (ad) 628. 113 Tex. Cr. R. 169, 18 9. V.

Pou ara therefore reapeotfully advised that amilitary policeman is not an officer vithln the purviov of the atatutss olted byyou. Vhile additional taota mayahov other provisions of the Penal Code to have been violated, JOUare also advised that It is our opinion that aprivate altizen vould not be subjeot to punishawkt under Artlola 339, Penal Code, aupra, under the taota aubmittbd.

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