Crawford v. City of Houston

SAM D. JOHNSON, Justice.

Appellant, as an employee of the City of Houston, came within the provisions of the Firemen’s and Policemen’s Civil Service Act, Vernon’s Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 1269m. He was indefinitely suspended from his work with the Houston Police Department on January 10, 1972. Nine days later, on January 19, 1972, he timely filed his appeal with the Firemen’s and Policemen’s Civil Service Commission of the City of Houston. His appeal, after some rescheduling, was set and heard on March 9, 1972. The date of the hearing before the Commission was considerably in excess of the…