Dotsey v. State

PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal of a felony theft conviction, on a plea of not guilty, in a trial before a jury. Punishment was assessed by the jury at four (4) years imprisonment.

Appellant is before the Court on a single ground of error, that being the trial court erred in failing to sustain appellant’s timely motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of an allegedly unlawful warrantless arrest.

We overrule the appellant’s ground of error and affirm the conviction.

Hudson’s Appliance Store in Cameron had been plagued by a series of thefts. The owner, Mr. C. W. Hudson, suspected…