Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Gonzales
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided May 12, 1997No. 72,606PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HOLLAND, Judge.
In this original application for writ of ha-beas corpus, applicant contends she is illegally restrained by an order of contempt in the 220th District Court of Bosque County. Applicant asserts that (1) her restraint violates Tex. Const, art. I, § 18, and various other statutes, because she is being imprisoned for failure to pay a debt; and (2) she was deprived of counsel at the hearing in which the trial judge found her in contempt of court and sentenced her to ninety days in the Bosque County Jail.
Applicant was convicted of burglary of a habitation and sentenced to five…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Argersinger v. HamlinSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- North Carolina v. ButlerSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by160 opinions
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