Silvia v. State

The relator is under conviction for violation of the statute of the state. The judgment assessed against him a fine of $100 and confinement in the county jail for 60 days. He was convicted in a court known as the “county court of Jefferson county at law No. 2,” organized under chapter 61 of the Acts of the Thirty-Fifth Legislature, Fourth Called Session. The caption of the act is as follows:

“An act to establish and create a court to be known as the ‘county court of Jefferson county at law No. 2’ and to prescribe its organization, jurisdiction and procedure, and to conform the jurisdiction and…