Legal Opinion

Ex parte Hill

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided July 26, 1967No. 40632PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding attacking the conviction for forgery with punishment enhanced under Article 63, P.C., affirmed by this Court in Hill v. State, 149 Tex.Cr.R. 324, 194 S.W.2d 266.

It is now made to appear that in one of the prior convictions used to enhance the punishment in said cause the defendant entered a plea of guilty before the court without a jury to the offense of felony theft (Cause No. 14526 in the 18th District Court of Johnson County on October 31, 1932) and that he did not have a lawyer and was not represented by counsel at such…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Greer v. BetoSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Ex Parte RawlinsCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1953
  3. Ex Parte GreerCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1966
  4. Wilson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1952
  5. Hill v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1946

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Ex Parte GreggCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968

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