Green v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant again urges that we erred in holding admissible statements made by him to the officers who arrested him, our conclusion being based on the proposition that said statements were res gestae. Appellant insists that he was under arrest when he made the statements and that for this reason same should have been rejected. On page 52 of his Annotated P. C., Mr. Branch cites numerous cases, beginning with Harrison v. State, 20 Tex. Crim. App. 397, all holding that statements made after a given transaction is ended, but so near or connected therewith…