Ex Parte Coombs, Alias Shirley
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. T. P. Hash, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for keeping a disorderly house; penalty, a fine of $200. The opinion states the case in so far as the question upon which the appeal was determined is concerned.
1Opinion of the Court
Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Dallas County, under an indictment charging her with keeping a disorderly house, her punishment being assessed at a fine of $200; hence this appeal.
When the case was called for trial, she filed a plea to the jurisdiction, alleging, in substance, that the County Court could not exercise concurrent original jurisdiction with the justice of the peace over said offense, and that said County Court could only exercise jurisdiction in such cases when appealed from said justice's court. It was also asserted in said plea that the city court of Dallas had…
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