SWEETEN v. STATE

Nos. 64087, 64088.

693 S.W.2d 454 (1985)

Charles Edmond SWEETEN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

July 17, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Foster, Longview, for appellant.

Odis R. Hill, Dist. Atty. and R. Clement Dunn, Asst. Dist. Atty., Longview, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION ON STATE'S MOTION FOR REHEARING

TEAGUE, Judge.

On original submission, after finding from the facts that the confession of Charles Edmond Sweeten, appellant, was the product of an illegal arrest and detention, and also finding that the prosecution failed to establish sufficient intervening circumstances or events that might have purged the primary taint, this Court held that the trial court committed reversible error when it admitted into evidence...

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