Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Randell

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 23, 1924No. 8391PublishedCited by 4 opinions

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

HAWKINS, Judge.

From an order of Hon. C. W. Robinson, Judge of the Criminal District Court of Harris County, remanding him to custody for extradition to the State of Missouri relator brings this appeal.

In reply to an order to show by what authority he was holding relator, the Chief of Police of the City of Houston answered that he held him in the beginning by virtue of a warrant of arrest from a justice of the peace of Harris County upon a charge that relator was a fugitive from justice, but that at the time of the hearing he was holding him on an extradition warrant issued by the Governor of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Ex Parte LewisCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1914
  2. Ex Parte HoltCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Russell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1948
  2. Ex Parte YawmanCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1929
  3. Ex Parte StanleyCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1937
  4. Harris v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1951

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