Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Stevens

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 28, 1920No. 5700Published

From Bexar County. Original habeas corpus proceedings asking release from custody pending his motion for new trial; relator being convicted of aggravated assault under an indictment of assault with intent to murder.

1Opinion of the Court

MORROW, Judge.

It is made to appear in this application for writ of habeas corpus that the relator was charged by indictment with the offense of assault with intent to murder, and on his trial under said indictment was convicted of an aggravated assault by a verdict of the jury. Aggravated assault is a misdemeanor, and is one of the lower grades of assault included in the indictment for assault with intent to murder. He filed a motion for a new trial, and was remanded to jail pending its hearing. - He seeks relief from the order remanding him, contending that, he being on bail at the time the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Ex Parte CaldwellCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1910
  2. Ex Parte HendersonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1917

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