Rippy v. State

(dissenting). — I regret not to be in accord with my associates in every case. In this case an officer without warrant was seeking to ferret out and bring to justice the slayer of a man who had been killed at a filling station on a public highway in the l,ate afternoon. The scene of the killing and the arrest of appellant for the murder, was some seven miles from the county seat, and unquestionably many miles from any magistrate before whom complaint could be filed after investigation, and by whom a warrant of arrest could have been issued. The officer referred to went from the county seat at…