Commissioners Court of Lubbock County v. Martin

REYNOLDS, Justice.

This appeal results from the trial court’s declaratory judgment decreeing that Section 10 of Article 42.12, the Adult Probation and Parole Law, of the Vernon’s Ann. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure is constitutional, and that the actions of the defendant district judges, acting under the Texas Attorney General’s interpretation of Section 10, were within their proper powers. The judgment of the trial court, as modified in this opinion, is affirmed.

In 1965, the 59th Legislature undertook a plenary revision of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure and in the final version…