Court Opinion

ID: 9674127
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:23:29.745029+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:11:05.926077
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ON appellant’s motion for rehearing
BELCHER, Judge.
*357Appellant reurges his contention that the trial jury was placed in charge of persons during the trial other than duly authorized officers of the law.
After careful consideration we remain of the opinion that the women deputy sheriffs were de facto officers. 34 Tex. Jur. 619, Sec. 164; 43 Am. Jur. 233, Sec. 481.
It is insisted that the trial court erred in permitting Officer Keating to testify as to facts related to him by appellant while he was under arrest.
Such facts related by the appellant to the officers enabled them to find the knife with which the murder was committed.
The statements of the accused that are found to be true, which conduce to establish his guilt, such as the finding of the instrument with which he states the offense was committed are admissible in evidence. Art. 727, Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P.; 18 Tex. Jur. 144, Sec. 72; Whitaker v. State, 160 Tex. Cr. R. 271, 268 S.W. 2d 172.
We have carefully considered appellant’s motion for rehearing and remain convinced that a correct conclusion was reached originally.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.
The opinion approved by the Court.