Billy Doyle Medford, Appellant v. the State of Texas

Summary

The Court held that a jury may not rely on any colloquial meaning of “arrest” when convicting for escape and that appellate review of the sufficiency of the evidence must not be limited to the definition in Article 15.22 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. Accordingly, the Court vacated the appellate court’s judgment and remanded for further proceedings consistent with its definition of arrest.