Commissioners' Court of Hays County v. District Judge, 22nd Judicial District of Hays County

O’QUINN, Justice.

The District Judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, a district comprising Hays, Caldwell, and Comal Counties, filed this lawsuit in March of 1973 seeking a writ of mandamus to compel the Commissioners’ Court of Hays County to appropriate $22,800 as the county’s proportional share of the district’s Adult Probation Budget for the year 1973.

The Commissioners- 1 denied any duty to fund the assessment, previously determined by the District Judge under the Texas Adult Probation and Parole Law (Art. 42.-12, Code of Criminal Procedure, sec. 10), because the Judge did not…