OPINION
Introduction
Appellant Amber Nicole Clement appeals her conviction for the offense of resisting arrest or transport. In issues one through four, appellant argues that the evidence is legally and factually insufficient to support her conviction. In issue five, appellant asserts that the jury did not render a unanimous verdict because of the erroneous disjunctive submission of two different offenses or theories of committing the crime in the charge. We affirm.
Background Facts
On December 13, 2005, at about 3:00 p.m., Carrollton Police Officer Robert Hay saw the twenty-one-year-old appellant striking her boyfriend, Kyle Compagna, in the parking lot of a shopping center in the 1000 block of East Frankford Road in Denton County. Officer Hay saw that Compagna put his hands up in a defensive motion as he tried to walk away from appellant, but she followed him. Officer Hay pulled into the parking lot, turned on the lights on his marked patrol car, and called for backup. He then tried to separate appellant and Compagna. Officer Hay testified that while appellant continued to strike Compagna, Officer Hay walked up behind her and grabbed her arms. He also testified that appellant pulled away from him and resisted his directions. Officer Hay was wearing his police uniform.
*795 Carrollton Police Officer Glenn Michna responded to Officer Hay’s call and arrived in the parking lot about thirty seconds after Officer Hay called for backup. When Officer Michna arrived, he saw Officer Hay following appellant, who was chasing a male. He then saw Officer Hay place appellant in handcuffs.
After handcuffing appellant, Officer Hay placed her on the curb and went to speak to Compagna. While Officer Hay conducted his investigation, appellant slipped her left hand out of the handcuffs. Officer Hay testified that appellant wore a thick sweater and because of her resistance to being handcuffed, he placed the handcuffs over the sweater. The sweater came out from beneath the handcuffs, which gave appellant enough room for her left hand to come out. When Officer Hay saw that appellant’s left hand was free, he and Officer Michna went to recuff her. Officer Michna corroborated Officer Hay’s testimony about the handcuffs.
After the officers recuffed appellant, they tried to put her in the back of Officer Hay’s police car. Officer Hay testified that appellant did not cooperate and that he had difficulty getting her to the car because she moved in the opposite direction from the one directed by the officers and continued to resist and struggle. He also testified that appellant pushed against him and Officer Michna the entire time and that from the beginning “it was a constant battle.” Officer Michna testified that he heard Officer Hay tell appellant that she was going to jail. When Officers Hay and Michna finally got appellant into the car, she began to kick, scream, and bang her head against the windows of the car. While Officer Hay finished his investigation, appellant continued to scream and cry hysterically in the car. Appellant repeatedly banged her head against the side window and on the Plexiglass that separated the front seat from the back seat. Appellant also lay down across the seat and kicked the side windows. After about fifteen minutes, Officer Hay got into his car to take appellant to the police station, but he drove only about thirty yards before he had to stop because appellant continued to kick the side windows in the police car; appellant kicked the windows so hard that they came out of their frames. He and Officer Michna opened the door to restrain appellant’s feet, and she kicked at Officer Hay’s face, although her foot did not make contact. Appellant continued to kick, convulse, and scream as the officers placed her feet in restraints. Appellant also continued to bang her head against the Plexiglass.
After securing appellant’s feet in restraints, Officer Hay continued to the police station, which was about five to ten minutes away. Officer Hay pulled into the garage area of the jail, and several officers came to help get appellant out of the car. An officer asked appellant to stop fighting and to calm down, but she continued to cry hysterically as they took her inside.
The State charged appellant with the offense of resisting arrest, search, or transport. On November 16, 2006, a jury found appellant guilty of that offense. The trial court sentenced appellant to three hundred days’ confinement, suspended for twenty-four months.
Sufficiency of the Evidence
In appellant’s issues one through four, she argues that the evidence was legally and factually insufficient to support her conviction for resisting arrest or transport.
Standard of review
In reviewing the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction, we view all the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution in order to determine whether any rational trier of
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fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
Jackson v. Virginia,
The sufficiency of the evidence should be measured by the elements of the offense as defined by the hypothetically correct jury charge for the case.
Malik v. State,
When reviewing the factual sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction, we view all the evidence in a neutral light, favoring neither party.
Watson v. State,
In determining whether the evidence is factually insufficient to support a conviction that is nevertheless supported by legally sufficient evidence, it is not enough that this court “harbor a subjective level of reasonable doubt to overturn [the] conviction.”
Id.
We cannot conclude that a conviction is clearly wrong or manifestly unjust simply because we would have decided differently than the jury or because we disagree with the jury’s resolution of a conflict in the evidence.
Id.
We may not simply substitute our judgment for the
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fact-finder’s.
Johnson,
An opinion addressing factual sufficiency must include a discussion of the most important and relevant evidence that supports the appellant’s complaint on appeal.
Sims v. State,
Applicable law
Although appellant separates her sufficiency issues into challenges to a conviction for resisting arrest and a conviction for resisting transportation, the judgment reflects that appellant was convicted of a single offense, resisting arrest or transport.
See Hartis v. State,
A person can forcefully resist an arrest without successfully making physical contact with the officer.
See Sartain v. State,
Analysis
In this case, Officer Hay testified that he saw appellant hitting her boyfriend in the parking lot of a shopping center and stopped to investigate. When he approached appellant, she resisted by pulling away from him and moved in the opposite direction of Officer Hay’s instructions. Once Officer Hay handcuffed appellant, she freed her left hand. When Officer Hay saw that appellant’s left hand was free, he and Officer Michna, who had arrived at the scene, went back to recuff her. Officer Hay testified that appellant was more resistant when he handcuffed her the second time.
Additionally, appellant did not cooperate when Officers Hay and Michna tried to put her in Officer Hay’s police car. Officer Hay testified that they had difficulty getting appellant to the car because she continued to resist, struggle, and pull away from them. He also testified that she ignored their directions the entire time by pulling and pushing against them; when they finally got her into the car, appellant began to kick, scream, and bang her head against the windows of the car. Appellant *798 screamed and cried hysterically while banging her head against the Plexiglass and kicking the side windows. Appellant repeatedly kicked the windows in the police car to the point where the glass came out of the window frame, and Officers Hay and Michna had to restrain her feet. Even as Officer Hay secured her feet, appellant kicked at his face and remained uncooperative by screaming and writhing away from him.
After securing appellant’s feet, Officer Hay continued to the jail, which was about five to ten minutes away. Officer Hay testified that
she [appellant] continued banging her head against the front half of the cage and screaming. And she banged her head against the glass on the car that— where it was already kicked out some. Both sides of my car, I believe, were kicked out. She was banging her head against the glass as well .... [as][t]he side glass.
Carrollton Police Officer Glenn Michna also testified about appellant’s behavior. He testified that placing appellant in the patrol vehicle was a struggle because she resisted and pulled away from them. Officer Michna testified that appellant “would lean back with her weight to not let us pull her forward and just drop her weight where it was a struggle to pull her.” Officer Michna also stated that after appellant was in the car, she began to hit her head on the windows. Officer Michna testified that he helped Officer Hay secure appellant’s feet after she continued to kick the windows in the police car. He stated that appellant “had already kicked out the window,” while sitting in the car and they “wanted to make sure she didn’t knock out a window where she could get out of the car.” Officer Michna followed Officer Hay to the jail and saw appellant struggling and hitting her head against the Plexiglass. Officer Michna stated that appellant continued to yell and scream upon arriving at the jail.
Appellant also testified at trial. She testified that on the afternoon of December 13, 2005, she had pinkeye and did not go to work. She had picked up her boyfriend, Compagna, and they were on their way to his house when he told her to pull over. Compagna got out of the car and started to walk home. Appellant testified that he was upset because she was late picking him up. She testified that she ran after him, telling him to please get back in the car, but that she did not strike him. She said that she reached out to him but not to hit him.
Appellant also testified that she initially pulled away from Officer Hay because she did not see him approach her from behind, he did not identify himself, and her eye was infected. He then placed her in handcuffs and put her on the curb. Appellant stated that her handcuffs were not tight because of her thick sweater, and she got her left hand free so that she could touch her eye. She said she was not trying to leave and was still sitting on the curb, sobbing. When the officers saw that she was not handcuffed, appellant testified, they jumped on her and held her down. She received a scar on her face from being face down on the concrete.
Appellant also testified that she was not struggling with the officers, but that she had difficulty walking because of her four-inch boots. Appellant asked why she was being put in the police car, and the officers never told her that she was under arrest. Appellant stated she was crying and upset because the officers did not ask her anything, not even her name. She testified that she hit her head against the. windows because she was trying to get someone’s attention; she stated she was frustrated and had pinkeye.
*799 She also testified that she was upset because she needed her medicine and because she was worried about her car. The officers let Compagna drive off with her car. She never tried to escape, but she wanted to know what was going on. Appellant testified that she yelled and screamed because she was “completely emotionally distraught.” She also testified that she knew that her behavior was completely irrational, but that she was angry with the situation and upset that Compag-na had taken her car. Appellant stated that she kicked the windows to get someone’s attention because she felt violated, but she did not intend to prevent or obstruct being arrested or transported to jail. Appellant also testified that she did not kick at Officer Hay when he restrained her feet, but that she was trying to move to the other side of the car to get away from him.
Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, we conclude that a reasonable juror could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant intentionally resisted the officers’ initial attempts to arrest her as well as Officer Hay’s attempt to transport her to jail.
See
Tex. Penal Code
Ann. § 38.08(a); Jackson, 443
U.S. at 319,
Charge in the Disjunctive
In her fifth issue, appellant contends that she was denied her right to a unanimous verdict because of the disjunctive submission of two different offenses or theories in the jury charge: resisting arrest and resisting transport. Although this court has not previously addressed this issue, we look to opinions of the Houston Fourteenth District and the Dallas Court of Appeals, which have addressed section 38.03 in a similar manner.
See Hartis,
Applicable law
Appellate review of error in a jury charge involves a two-step process.
Abdnor v. State,
If there is error in the court’s charge but the appellant did not object to it at trial, we must decide whether the error was so egregious and created such harm that the appellant did not have a fair and impartial trial — in short, that “egre
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gious harm” has occurred.
Almanza v. State,
A jury verdict in a criminal case is required to be unanimous. Tex. Const, art. V, § 13;
Pizzo v. State,
Analysis
The relevant portions of the jury charge read,
Our law provides that a person commits the offense of resisting arrest if she intentionally prevents or obstructs a person she knows is a peace officer from effecting an arrest or transport of such person or another person by using force against the peace officer. It is no de- . fense that the arrest or transportation was unlawful.
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Now, therefore, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 13th day of December, 2005, the defendant, AMBER NICOLE CLEMENT did then and there resist arrest in Denton County, Texas, to wit: said defendant did intentionally prevent or obstruct, Robert Hay, a person the defendant knew to be a peace officer, from effecting an arrest or transportation of the defendant, by using force against said peace officer you will find the defendant “Guilty” as charged in the information.
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Your verdict must be rendered upon the unanimous vote of all members of the Jury. You are obligated by your oath to render a true verdict according to the law and the evidence. Each juror must *801 agree upon the verdict to be rendered. You will not decide the issue submitted for your deliberations by lot, by drawing straws or by any other method of chance. Neither should you agree to a verdict by any vote less than unanimous vote of all members of the Jury.
In
Finster v. State,
the Dallas Court of Appeals analyzed whether the acts of resisting arrest, search, or transportation under section 38.03 constituted one offense capable of being committed under alternative theories.
The Houston Fourteenth District Court of Appeals, citing
Finster,
also analyzed section 38.03 — resisting arrest — in
Hartis v. State.
We adopt the “separate-offense analysis” used by the Dallas and Houston Courts of Appeals in interpreting section 38.03. When a statute proscribes different types of conduct, the use of the word “or” between the descriptions of that conduct is some indication that the legislature intended each to be a separate offense.
Vick v. State,
In section 38.03, the conduct proscribed is not “effecting an arrest, search, or transportation”; it is “intentionally preventing] or obstructing] ... by using force.” Tex. Penal Code AnN. § 38.03(a);
see Sartain,
The object of the conduct is also relevant to the determination of the number of offenses a statute proscribes.
Id.
A defendant violates section 38.03 by intentionally preventing or obstructing a peace officer or a person acting at a peace officer’s direction “from effecting an arrest, search or transportation ... by using force.” Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 38.03(a);
see Sartain,
We adopt the reasoning of the Dallas and Houston Courts of Appeals and join these courts in holding that penal code section 38.03 describes only one offense, but identifies three different means by which it can be committed.
See Hartis,
Conclusion
Having overruled all of appellant’s issues, we affirm the trial court’s judgment.
Notes
. Appellant also argues that pre-arrest activity cannot be considered when reviewing sufficiency evidence; however, even if we do not consider appellant’s pre-arrest actions, there is ample evidence after her arrest to support the jury’s findings.
