Warrick v. State
Decision Date | 23 June 1982 |
Docket Number | No. 3,No. 63196,63196,3 |
Citation | 634 S.W.2d 707 |
Parties | Andrew Adams WARRICK, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee |
Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
James M. Murphy, Dallas, for appellant.
Henry M. Wade, Dist. Atty. and Bruce Evan Foster, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
Before ODOM, DALLY and McCORMICK, JJ.
This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of misdemeanor possession of marihuana; the punishment is confinement in the county jail for thirty days and a fine of $200. The appellant was granted probation.
The appellant's sole contention is that the marihuana was obtained in a search after he was unlawfully arrested. The appellant cites and relies mainly upon Article 14.01, V.A.C.C.P. and Honeycutt v. State, 499 S.W.2d 662 (Tex.Cr.App.1973).
At approximately 10:00 a.m. a police officer observed two cars which had been in a minor accident. The appellant was beside his car arguing with another man. The appellant and the other man could not decide who was at fault in the side by side collision. Both men got in the officer's squad car and he drove them back to see if they could find the point of impact and determine which car had changed lanes and collided with the other car. They could not find the point of impact so they went back to the two cars to further discuss the accident. At this time the officer said the appellant appeared intoxicated. His eyes were extremely bloodshot, his speech was slurred, and he was confused and unsteady when he walked. There was a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on appellant's breath. The officer called a wrecker to get the appellant's car, and he arrested the appellant. The arrest he said was for "investigation of DWI." The officer took the appellant to a substation, completed paper work, and searched the appellant before booking him into jail. During the search the officer found a marihuana cigarette in the appellant's upper right shirt pocket.
In Honeycutt v. State, supra, the facts were quite different. Officers had information from a credible citizen that Honeycutt was driving while intoxicated and had collided with the car driven by the credible citizen. The officer observed Honeycutt's car in front of her house. The officer knew she had already been convicted of the misdemeanor offense of driving while intoxicated. Honeycutt would not answer when officers knocked on her door, so the officers opened the door, entered her house, found her lying on the bed and arrested her. The court held:
"We cannot conclude the evidence shows the appellant was about to escape or that it was not possible to secure a felony arrest warrant under the circumstances presented."
In the recent case of United States v. Fossler, 597 F.2d 478 (5th Cir. 1979), a panel for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the same issues as we have in the instant case. The circumstances there were much more analogous to this case then those in Honeycutt v. State, supra. We quote at length from United States v. Fossler, supra, including the footnotes.
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