Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Guinn

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 23, 1921No. 6097PublishedCited by 5 opinions

From Tarrant County. Original habeas corpus proceeding asking release from a judgment ■convicting defendant as a delinquent child and committing him to the Boys’ Training School. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The relator has been adjudged a delinquent child and ordered committed to the Boys’ Training School situated in Coryell County, Texas, for an indeterminate period, not to exceed five years or beyond the time he shall have reached the age of twenty-one years.

The judgment was entered in June, 1920. No appeal was prosecuted. Release is sought by way or writ of habeas corpus on the ground that conviction, on its face, is void.

The complaint is not artfully" drawn, the pleader having used printed blanks containing much matter that should have been erased. It does charge,…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Ex Parte EzellTexas Supreme Court · 1874
  2. Ex Parte ReynoldsCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1896
  3. Ex Parte LambertCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1896
  4. Ex Parte Arthur JapanCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1896
  5. Ex Parte DavisCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1919

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Ex Parte Dick RainsTexas Supreme Court · 1923
  2. Ex parte ValdezCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2016
  3. Flores v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1975
  4. Ex Parte Edwin BurkhartCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1923
  5. Ex Parte Edwin BurkhartCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1923

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