Ex parte Murphy
Court of Appeals of Texas
Habeas Corpus on appeal from a judgment in chambers by the Hon. H. 0. Pleasants, Judge of the Twenty-fourth Judicial District, remanding the relator to the custody of the sheriff of Karnes county.
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
On the fifth Monday after the first Monday in March, 1889, being the eig'hth day of April, a term of the district court for Karnes county was begun and held in said county, and at said term the applicant Joe Murphy Was convicted and sentenced for the felony of incest. He applied to the Hon. H. 0. Pleasants, judge of said court, for the writ of habeas corpus, which was granted, and upon a hearing of said writ he was remanded to the custody of the sheriff of said county, that said' sentence might be executed. He has appealed to this court, insisting that said conviction is…
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