Ex Parte Gordon

This is an original application for writ of habeas corpus.

Applicant is a boy between thirteen and fourteen years of age. The offense with which he was charged is felony theft. He was tried, however, as a delinquent before Judge Turner, district judge, without the intervention of a jury and given a term of five years in the juvenile training school or reformatory at Gatesville. He filed his plea for suspended sentence. This was decided adversely to him by the court. The judge pronounced sentence and committed him to the reformatory. He gave notice of appeal, and was granted ninety days in…