Legal Opinion

Donahoo v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 30, 1955No. 27863Published

1Opinion

On Motion for Rehearing.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

For the first time on motion for rehearing, we have been furnished with a very comprehensive brief in which the constitutionality of Article 567b, V.A.P.C. (giving check, draft or order without sufficient funds) is attacked section by section. The constitutionality of the presumptions created by the statute are particularly challenged.

While it is true that an accused may at any stage of the proceedings against “him attack the constitutionality of a statute -under which he has been convicted, we do "hold that it is incumbent upon him to show…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Mathis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1929
  2. Rhyne v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1941
  3. Trigg v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1931

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