Legal Opinion
Self v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided September 12, 1984No. 04-83-00200-CRPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
REEVES, Justice.
This is an appeal from a conviction of murder. The sole ground of error alleges the inadmissibility of a written confession due to an illegal warrantless arrest of appellant.
At 12:55 p.m. on Saturday, August 7, 1982, a detective of the San Antonio Police Department obtained a written statement from one James Williams in which he admitted involvement in a homicide and robbery occurring August 6, 1982, at a grocery store in San Antonio. Williams, at this time, implicated a man he knew only as Joseph and another man by the name of Roland. Williams related, in detail, his…
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