Legal Opinion

Mayfield v. Giblin

Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)

Decided August 30, 1990No. 09-90-062 CVPublished

1Opinion of the Court

795 S.W.2d 852 (1990)

Darren Lee MAYFIELD, Relator,

v.

The Honorable Leonard GIBLIN, Jr., Respondent.

No. 09-90-062 CV.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

August 30, 1990.

Rehearing Denied September 18, 1990.

David Bonham, Nederland, Jim Vollers, Austin, for relator.

Tom Maness, Dist. Atty., John R. DeWitt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Beaumont, for respondent.

OPINION

BROOKSHIRE, Justice.

Petition for writs of mandamus and prohibition.

The trial court acted entirely correctly in the exercise of its broad and, indeed, decisive discretion which by law places in trial judges the power to accept or to reject such…

Also in this document: Concurrence; Dissent.

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal.Supreme Court of the United States · 1976
  2. Johnson v. Fourth Court of AppealsTexas Supreme Court · 1985
  3. United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
  4. Serfass v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  5. Ohio v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984

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