Lopez v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

Appellant was convicted upon an indictment charging him with the offense of wilfully interfering with a police officer while such officer was in the exercise of functions intended to control, reduce or contain injury to persons or property during a riot, civil disturbance or other public disaster, as denounced by Article 472a, Vernon’s Ann.P.C. Punishment was assessed at five years probated.

A brief summary of the evidence shows that on the date in question a group of people were “picketing” the police station in Pharr. At approximately dark the group began to shout and…