State v. Vargas

In the trial of this suit by Vargas against the State of Texas for compensation for wrongful imprisonment, brought under and pursuant to the provisions of art. 1176a, Vernon’s Texas Penal Code, the State objected to the admission in evidence and consideration by the court of certain recitations in Vargas’ pardon proclamation signed by the Acting Governor and filed in the office of Secretary of State in 1929.

The court of civil appeals held that if admission of the recitations was error, the error was harmless. 419 S.W.2d 926. We are of the opinion that admission of the recitations was not…