Court Opinion

ID: 9767703
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:23:57.744154+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:32.547044
License: Public Domain

WOODLEY, Judge
(concurring).
I join in approving the opinion affirming the conviction, and point out these additional matters.
The affidavit for search warrant is almost identical (except for names and places) with the affidavit supporting the search warrant we held to be sufficient in Reyna v. State, 165 Texas Cr. Rep. 91, 302 S.W. 2d 942.
The warrant issued upon the affidavit commanded the arrest of appellant as well as the search of his house.
The trial judge, in his charge, instructed the jury that the *415search warrant introduced for his inspection was a valid warrant and authorized a search of appellant’s house and premises.
The charge in this regard was not attacked by exception or requested charge and the authority of the officers to search and to arrest under the warrant is not challenged.
Appellant does challenge the manner in which the warrant was attempted to be executed.
The testimony from the state’s witnesses was that appellant ran for his gun after they had announced that they were officers and had a search warrant. Appellant’s testimony and that of his witness was that the officer who was shot and killed by appellant broke into his house without informing appellant that he was an officer or of his purpose. The defensive theory was submitted and applied in Paragraph 19 of the court’s charge as follows:
“19. Now, if you believe from the evidence, or have a reasonable doubt thereof, that the defendant was not informed and did not know that the persons entering his house at the time of the fatal difficulty were peace officers, and that he was not informed or given notice of the purpose of such officers in entering his house, and that he shot Officer Miller, if he did, to prevent or repel what appeared to him, viewed from his standpoint at the time, to be an unlawful invasion of his home, then you will find the defendant not guilty.”
The jury accepted the state’s version and the evidence sustains its verdict.