Jackie Vance Lowery, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court held that the affidavit supporting the arrest warrant failed to satisfy Aguilar's reliability and basis-of-knowledge requirements, rendering the warrant invalid. Consequently, the warrantless arrest was unlawful, the pistol seized incident to that arrest was inadmissible, and the subsequent warrantless search based on Joyce Strawn's purported consent was invalid. The conviction was reversed and the case remanded.