Mattox v. State

But for what the majority of the voters of this State did on November 4, 1980, when they chose to vote against adopting H.J.R. No. 97, which was a proposed Constitutional amendment that would have permitted an interlocutory appeal to this Court from a trial court’s decision to overrule or deny an accused person’s pretrial motion to quash the charging instrument, I would not hesitate for one moment to vote to grant appellant’s petition for discretionary review, in order to review the trial court’s rulings that concern appellant’s motions to quash the charging instruments.

Nevertheless, the…