Court Opinion

ID: 9674434
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:28:36.744659+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:27.597387
License: Public Domain

REYNOLDS, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the decision that, on the rationale expressed in the court’s opinion, the judgment of conviction must be reversed because of the erroneous admission of the newspaper articles into evidence. However, I withhold my concurrence from the portion of the opinion which holds that the collective knowledge of the law enforcement officers constituted sufficient probable cause to effect the arrest. In my view, the record does not present the Williams v. State, 621 S.W.2d 609 (Tex.Cr.App.1981), situation where an officer, possessing information sufficient to constitute probable cause, requests an arrest effected by another officer. Rather, it presents the situation where an officer, having received satisfactory proof that a felony has been committed, was authorized to arrest appellant without a warrant upon his personal observation that appellant was about to escape. Tex.Code Crim.Pro.Ann. art. 14.04 (Vernon 1977); King v. State, 631 S.W.2d 486, 498 (Tex. Cr. App .1982).