Ex Parte Ballard
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Ellis County. Original Habeas Corpus proceedings, asking release from a conviction for failing to make a report of school funds to the Superintendent of Public Instruction; penalty, five hundred dollars and thirty days in county jail. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Relator was convicted in the County Court of Ellis County, and seeks relief here, by writ of habeas corpus, from what he claims to be a void judgment. It is plain that such must appear to be the character of the judgment before we would entertain an attack upon it "by such a writ.
The charge in the trial court was by complaint and information, the charging part of which is as follows:
“That one J. A. Ramsey and one B. F. Ballard, and each of them, did on or about the 1st day of October, 1918, and before the making and filing of this information, in the County of Ellis, State of…
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