Court Opinion

ID: 9682419
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 08:11:05.268539+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:11:39.265653
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TEAGUE, Judge,
dissenting.
Having concluded that today should be the day for this Court to finally give meaning to the provisions of Art. 15.17, V.A.C. C.P., that the person making an arrest of the accused shall without unnecessary delay take the accused or have him taken before some magistrate of the county where he was arrested, I would first apply to this cause the same principles that Justice Frankfurter stated in the unanimous opinions he authored for the Supreme Court in Me Nabb v. United States, 318 *681U.S. 332, 63 S.Ct. 608, 87 L.Ed. 819 (1943), and Mallory v. United States, 354 U.S. 449, 77 S.Ct. 1356, 1 L.Ed.2d 1479 (1957), and would then reverse appellant’s conviction for failure of the police to comply with the above statute. The majority, however, opts to continue on its merry way. To the majority’s continued subscription to a rule of law that does not comport with “civilized standards of procedure and evidence,” McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. at 340, 63 S.Ct. at 613, 87 L.Ed. at 824, I dissent.