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Warner v. State

Citations

  • 257 S.W.3d 243
  • 2008 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 822
  • 2008 WL 2596961

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding “the language of the [escape] statute expressly requires that a person have been in custody before he can escape,” which means “an escape can occur only after an officer has successfully restrained or restricted a suspect”
  • noting statutory distinctions between the offenses of escape, evading arrest, and resisting arrest, which are offenses a person commits when an officer has not successfully restrained or restricted a suspect
  • noting statutory distinctions between the offenses of escape, evading arrest, and resisting arrest, which are offenses a person commits when an officer has not successfully restrained or restricted a suspect
  • “[A] term not defined by the legislature may be understood by its meaning in ordinary usage.”
  • “[A] term not defined by the legislature may be understood by its meaning in ordinary usage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Womack, Meyers, Price, Johnson, Keasler, Heryey, Holcomb, Cochran, Keller

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