Ex Parte Haley
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Dallas County. Original habeas corpus proceedings, asking release from the penitentiary, contending that the judgment of conviction was void because of a defective recognizance in change of venue proceedings. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion
ON REHEARING.
March 9, 1921.
HAWKINS, Judge.
On relator’s original application for writ of ■habeas corpus to be released from the penitentiary where he is confined by virtue of a judgment of conviction from Criminal District Court Number Two, Dallas County, the writ was denied by this court on a former day of the term, and relator is insisting we were in error in so doing.
As we understand it, his contention is that because the recognizance which relator entered into at the time the venue was changed from Kaufmann to Dallas Cotinty was defective in misnaming the court to which his case had been…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Harris v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1913
- State v. ButlerTexas Supreme Court · 1873