Hogan ex rel. Murphy v. Turland

O’QUINN, Justice.

Appellant seeks to invoke jurisdiction of this Court to determine whether the County Court of Bell County erred in refusing a writ of mandamus to compel a justice of the peace to accept notice of appeal and an appeal bond in a misdemeanor conviction for disturbing the peace.

Ernest Lamar Murphy, an eighteen-year-old boy, was arrested by city police in Kil-leen, without a warrant and without complaint, while playing a pin ball machine in the Yellow Cab Cafe. Later that day, in a proceeding before A. M. Turland, Justice of the Peace of Precinct No. 4 in Bell County, the boy was…