Ex Parte Roach
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Galveston County. Original Habeas Corpus proceedings asking release from arrest in the Girls’ Training School at Gainesville, Texas. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
This is an effort on behalf of relator, Vera Roach, by due presentation here of an original application for a writ of habeas corpus, to secure her release from the Girls’ Training School at Gainesville, Texas, to which she was committed by order of the Juvenile Court, at Galveston, in- December, 1919. This Court will not entertain jurisdiction of this habeas corpus, unless it be made to appear that the judgment entered was void. A copy of the judgment is attached to the answer of the respondent, the head of the said Girls Training School, and it at once appears from an…
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