Long v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of burglary, and bis punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.
The principal question in this case involves the validity of the Act of the Thirty-first Legislature, changing, extending and rearranging the terms of the Criminal District Court for Harris and Galveston Counties.
1. It is contended by appellant, and was urged in a strong oral argument that the Act is invalid in that same was in contravention of section 40, article 3, of the State Constitution, in that it was not embraced within the subjects designated by the proclamation…
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