Legal Opinion

Harris v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 31, 1933No. 16016Published

1Opinion

*344ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The bills of exception and statement of facts were filed too late for consideration. This is demonstrated in the opinion on original hearing.

It appears from the record that the trial was had before Curtis Douglass, Special County Judge of Carson County. The record fails to show that the special judge took the oath of office as required by the Constitution and by article 555, C. C. P., 1925. In the trial of a criminal case, the necessity that the record show a compliance with the Constitution in the particular mentioned is absolute. See many…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Mims v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1929
  2. McLemore v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1927

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