Ex parte Quintanilla

GRAVES, Judge.

Relator was charged in the Corporation Court of Corpus Christi, Texas, in four separate complaints with violations of the traffic laws, these causes being Nos. MO7223, MO7224, MO7225, and MO7226. All these cases were called for trial on May 20, 1947, and over relator’s objection, “in the interest of time”, the trial court proceeded to consolidate such four cases; that upon a jury being demanded, all four were submitted to the same jury, who found relator guilty in all of them and fined him in each case.

We think that the trial of all four separate cases before the same jury at…