State v. Romero

OPINION

OSBORN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by the State from a pretrial order of the trial judge suppressing oral statements made by the accused to the arresting officers. We reverse.

On July 20, 1987, Midland Police Detective B.G. Johnson met Justice of the Peace Keith Ray Jobe and other law enforcement personnel at a hospital in Midland to investigate the stabbing death of Jose Lomeli. At the hospital, two brothers, Eddie and Andy Ramos, advised Johnson that Lomeli made a dying declaration that the “land-man” (i.e. landlord) had stabbed him, identifying Appellant as the landlord. The…