Court Opinion

ID: 9764722
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:37:49.201676+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:01.022978
License: Public Domain

DOUGLAS, Judge,
dissenting.
The information covers all of the elements of V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Section 38.-03. It alleges that appellant
“[d]id then and there obstruct and prevent the arrest of Leon William Guevara by the use of force against Tom S. Adams Jr., hereinafter called complainant, and that the said Leon William Guevara knew complainant to be a Peace Officer.”
By any reasonable construction the information alleges that appellant intentionally obstructed his own arrest by use of force against Adams and that appellant knew that Adams was a peace officer. The majority writes: “ . . . the person trying to effect this arrest may not have been a peace officer.” There was no motion to set aside or quash the information. No complaint about the information has been raised on appeal.
Article 21.17, V.A.C.C.P., provides:
“Words used in a statute to define an offense need not be strictly pursued in the indictment; it is sufficient to use other words conveying the same meaning, or which include the sense of the statutory words.”
Even without resorting to this statute, the information sufficiently alleges that Adams was attempting to arrest appellant and that appellant used force against Adams to prevent the arrest.
The information is sufficient. The cause should not be reversed.