Legal Opinion

Ex parte Slawson

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 22, 1940No. 21162PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GRAVES, Judge.

Relator comes before us upon refusal to grant a discharge upon a writ of habeas corpus before District Judge McCrory, the basis of his request being that he was tried in one of the justice courts in San Antonio for a disturbance of the peace, and there fined $1.00 and costs; that he appealed such case to the county court at Law No. 2 of Bexar County, and was there again tried and fined $5.00 and costs. That a capias pro fine was thereafterwards issued by the clerk of said court No. 2 for the total sum of $32.75; that upon such capias he was held by the sheriff of Bexar County.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Taylor v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1872

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Ex parte LargentCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1942
  2. Ex parte CarterCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1941
  3. Goode v. City of DallasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1977
  4. Ex Parte TraftonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1954
  5. Ex Parte TraftonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1954

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