Sheehan v. State

OPINION

BILL VANCE, Justice.

Appellant Daniel John Sheehan appeals his misdemeanor conviction of resisting arrest and thirty-day sentence. We will reverse the trial court’s judgment and render a judgment of acquittal.

On the occasion in question, Sheehan was a parolee resident at a halfway house. Two Beaumont police officers — one male and one female — arrived to arrest him for a parole violation. Only the female officer testified. When asked what had happened on the occasion in question, she said:

When we got there, the staff wasn’t familiar with him because he had just arrived and they told us…