Ex Parte Gordon
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Bowie County. Original application for habeas corpus, asking release from imprisonment in the Juvenile Training School, which is hereby denied. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion
This is an original application for habeas corpus which was partially acted upon by this court at a former day to the extent of allowing bail until we should have opportunity to consider and pass on the merits of the contentions made.
Relator seeks release from detention by the Superintendent of the Juvenile Training School at Gatesville for various reasons. The provisions of the law, defining delinquent and incorrigible children, are assailed by relator as being so incongruous and unintelligible as that same cannot be understood or correctly enforced. We cannot agree with relator. While we…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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