Stanton v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

Appellant contends that the jury’s verdict finding him guilty of aggravated robbery must be reversed because his war-rantless arrest was unlawful under Texas law. Appellant argues that his confession which was given right after this unlawful arrest should therefore have been excluded as a product of an illegal warrantless arrest. The Fort Worth Court of Appeals held that the warrantless arrest of appellant was permissible under Art. 14.04, V.A. C.C.P. because appellant got into his car and “was leaving the premises…