Ex Parte Knox
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
GRAVES, Judge.
Relator was under the accusation of felony theft, as evidenced by certain complaints filed in a justice court of Hidalgo County, and was held thereunder by virtue of a warrant issued out of such court on December 20, 1943; that while held in jail on such warrant by the sheriff of such county, on February 9, 1944, relator’s wife filed an affidavit in lunacy in the county court, alleging that relator was a person of unsound mind, etc., and requesting that he be tried thereunder in the county court of such county. On February 23, 1944, the grand jury of Hidalgo County indicted…
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