Armendariz v. State

WOMACK, J.,

filed a concurring opinion.

While I join the Court’s opinion, I wish to point out a more significant question on which we granted review, but which the Court’s opinion does not reach: the authority of municipal police officers to arrest outside their cities.

This court confronted the question in 1987 in Angel v. State.1 Police officers of the City of Tomball stopped Angel outside the city limits on August 29, 1988. They learned that warrants for his arrest were outstanding, and one of them saw evidence *406that made him think that Angel’s vehicle had been “hot wired,” so they' arrested…