Legal Opinion

Ex parte Childress

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 29, 1980No. 66004PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

*927OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

Petitioner applies for the issuance of a post conviction writ of habeas corpus, invoking the subject matter jurisdiction of this Court which is prescribed by Article 11.07, V.A.C.C.P.

The record reflects that petitioner was convicted of aggravated assault in Cause No. 1532 on August 29, 1977, in Stonewall County; pursuant to the trial court’s findings that the allegations contained in two of three paragraphs alleged for enhancement were true,1 petitioner’s sentence was assessed at life confinement. See V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 12.42(d).

Petitioner now claims that one of the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Reynolds v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1977
  2. Ex Parte HillCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1975
  3. Ex Parte McCurdyCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
  4. Thomas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Millard Eugene Childress, Cross-Appellant v. James A. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1988

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