Court Opinion

ID: 9655039
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 18:58:40.809126+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:15.705252
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ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
BELCHER, Judge.
*227Appellant re-urges his contention that the act of handing the key to Officer Goode constituted an oral confession taken while under arrest, and therefore not admissible in evidence.
In Munoz v. State, 155 Tex. Cr. R. 223, 233 S.W. 2d 494, it is shown that when the officer asked to search appellant’s place, he was handed the keys by the appellant. There it was held that the search was made with the consent of the appellant.
The same result was reached in an appeal from a marihuana conviction in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. There the officers asked to search the premises, and appellant asked if they had a search warrant and, upon being informed that they did not, produced a key and let them in. Crawford v. U. S., 219 Fed. 2d 207, rehearing denied, 220 Fed. 2d 352.
The fact that appellant was under arrest did not nullify his consent to the search by furnishing the key to the building. Sikes v. State, 169 Tex. Cr. R. 443, 334 S.W. 2d 440.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.
Opinion approved by the Court.