Doss v. Waggoner
Texas Supreme Court
— Writ of Error from Lamar County. — Same. Judgment in these cases was rendered on the 15th day of May, 1848, being the sixth day of the spring term, 1848, for the county of Lamar.
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— Writ of Error from Lamar County. — Same. Judgment in these cases was rendered on the 15th day of May, 1848, being the sixth day of the spring term, 1848, for the county of Lamar. The court, then, must have commenced its session on the 8th day of May, 1848. “ An act to define the times for holding the district courts in the fifth, sixth, and eighth judicial districts,” approved March 18,1848, provides as follows, to wit: “In Lamar county on the third Monday in April and October, and may continue two weeks.” , This law went into force forty days after the adjournment. By the certificate of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hemphill
The ground of alleged error is common to the judgments in the above causes, viz.: that they were rendered by the district court at a time when, by law, that court had no power to hear and determine causes.
At the first session of the legislature of the state, the district court was directed to be holden in the county of Lamar on the ninth Monday after the first Monday in March, and the third Monday in September. [1 vol. State Laws, p. 275.]
At the last session, the times of holding this court were *516changed to the third Mondays in April and October [2 vol, State Laws, p. 135], and this session of…
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