A peace officer may arrest an offender without a warrant for any offense committed in his presence or within his view. A peace officer may make a valid arrest without a warrant in certain circumstances other than those set out in this instruction.If you are arrested without probable cause and falsely charged, can you sue the arresting officer? How would you go about doing this? See generally Ch. 14, Code of Criminal Procedure. The elements of a False Imprisonment claim in Texas are: 1) willful detention; 2) without consent; and 3) without authority of law. The plaintiff's claim in a warrantless false arrest lawsuit arose from a sheriff s deputy s visit to her house to check on the welfare of her daughter. 803 (repealed), now Section 153 of Uniform Act. Any arrest or detention of a person is presumed to be unlawful and the burden is upon the defendant to show that it was lawful. If the arrest was "privileged" or legally justified.