Ex Parte Medaris
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Lee County upon a hearing on habeas corpus in chambers, before Hon. Ed B. Sinks, wherein, relator was remanded to the custody of the sheriff, under a capias pro fine.
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
Relator was convicted in the County Court of Lee County of a misdemeanor, and fined $100, was placed in jail, and while so in jail a convict bond was given under the following circumstances, to wit: The defendant lived in Caldwell County (the conviction having occured in Lee County), and the bond for hiring out the convict (relator herein) was given by a party living in Caldwell County, and all the sureties on said bond lived in Caldwell County; in other words, defendant, his principal, and the sureties on the convict bond, all lived out of the county where the…
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