Armendariz, Jose Franco

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

OF TEXAS

NO. 0070-02

JOSE FRANCO ARMENDARIZ, Appellant

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS

ON DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

FROM THE EIGHTH COURT OF APPEALS

ECTOR COUNTY

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,…