Wallis v. State

2 Citing cases

  1. Barrett v. State

    718 S.W.2d 888 (Tex. App. 1986)   Cited 3 times
    Holding that defendant's stopping of his vehicle one hundred feet behind the stop line for a red light and behind a police car in the adjacent lane, created reasonable suspicion that defendant intended to avoid the police, justifying a Terry detention

    In short, the decision to impound the car and to have it towed to a safer place was well founded. The officers had no duty to attempt to contact a member of appellant's family before they assumed control over it. Evers v. State, supra; Wallis v. State, 636 S.W.2d 1, 2 (Tex.App. — Dallas 1982, no pet.). The written policy of the Department of Public Safety does not alter this conclusion. It provides:

  2. Dansby v. State

    659 S.W.2d 78 (Tex. App. 1983)

    An inventory search of an automobile is proper when impoundment of the vehicle is lawful. Wallis v. State, 636 S.W.2d 1, 2 (Tex.App. — Dallas 1982, no pet.). Impoundment of a vehicle is lawful incident to its removal from the scene of an accident.