Court Opinion

ID: 9760639
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 01:06:23.374446+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:15.285990
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
DAVIDSON, Judge.
The ordinance of the city of San Antonio, drawn under the authority of Art. 214, C.C.P., reads as follows:
“AN ORDINANCE #25,357
“AMENDING SECTION 16-64 QF THE CITY ‘ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT’; AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 17,251, AUTHORIZING THE ARREST OF PERSONS WITHOUT WARRANTS UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, PASSED AND APPROVED ON FEBRUARY 21, 1952.
“BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO:
“1. Section 16-64 of the City Code of San Antonio is hereby amended to read as follows:
“ ‘Sec. 16-64. Arrest Without Warrant.
*459“The policemen of the City, in exercise of sound discretion, may arrest without warrant any person or persons found in suspicious places and/or under circumstances reasonably tending to show that such person or persons have been guilty of some felony or breach of the peace, or violation of some municipal ordinance, or about to commit some offense against some state law or against some municipal ordinance.’
“2. PASSED AND APPROVED this 1st day of August, A.D. 1957.
“/s/E. R. Crumrine
“Mayor Pro-tem
“ATTEST:
“/s/J. Frank Gallagher
“City Clerk”
Art. 214, C.C.P., reads as follows:
“Authority of municipality
“The municipal authorities of towns and cities may establish rules authorizing the arrest, without warrant, of persons found in suspicious places, and under circumstances which reasonably show that such persons have been guilty of some felony or breach of the peace, or threaten, or are about to commit some offense against the laws.”
It will be noted that the ordinance goes further and includes rights and privileges not incorporated in Art. 214, C.C.P., in that the ordinance authorizes an arrest of one found in a suspicious place under circumstances reasonably tending to show that such person has been guilty of violating some municipal ordinance.
Appellant insists that the ordinance in that particular is repugnant to the general laws of this state touching arrest without warrant and that it authorizes an arrest by a policeman of the city of San Antonio for offenses made unlawful only by a city ordinance and involving neither a felony nor a breach of the peace and not authorized under the provisions of Art. 214, C.C.P.
A determination of this appeal does not require us to pass upon that question or upon the validity of the ordinance in the particular mentioned, for here, the facts authorized appellant’s arrest under the other provisions of the ordinance as well as the general law.
*460A determination of the question raised by appellant is not necessary to a disposition of this case, and a ruling thereon is expressly reserved.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.