Dyar v. State

COCHRAN, J.,

concurring in which MEYERS and JOHNSON, JJ., joined.

I join the majority opinion. I add these comments in the fond hope that the Texas Legislature will one day revise article 14.03(a)(1)1 to clarify the meaning of its *469provision that a peace officer may arrest, without warrant, certain “persons found in suspicious places.” Professors Dix and Dawson call this article “[t]he most troublesome of the statutory provisions authorizing warrantless arrests,” 2 and for good reason. It makes little sense. “The legislative rationale for exempting arrests made in ‘suspicious places’ from the…