Texas Department of Public Safety v. Loeb

OPINION

JAN P. PATTERSON, Justice.

This case of statutory construction requires us to determine whether the term “convicted” in the Texas concealed handgun license statute, see Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 411.171(4) (West Supp.2004), encompasses a felony conviction that has been set aside under the Federal Youth Corrections Act (‘YCA”).1 The Texas Department of Public Safety contends that the trial court erred in holding that appel-lee William Robert Loeb’s set-aside conviction under the YCA was an “expungement by legislative design” and for that reason is excluded from the term “convicted” under…