Collins v. State

OPINION

HOLLIS HORTON, Justice

This case concerns whether an ex post facto violation of the defendant’s constitutional rights occurred due to the transfer of the defendant’s case from the juvenile court system to a district court where the defendant was tried as an adult. The appellant argues that an ex post facto violation occurred because he was tried as an adult for a crime he committed in 1998, when he was a thirteen-year-old child. At that time, Texas law required the proceedings against children fourteen or younger to be handled exclusively in juvenile courts.1 However, after 1998, the…