Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Sawyer

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 16, 1964No. 37675Published

1Opinion

ON PETITIONER’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

WOODLEY, Judge.

The writer failed to point out a distin-guishment between this case and Garza v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 369 S.W.2d 36, which should foreclose any question but that petitioner is not entitled to relief on the ground of former jeopardy.

Garza pleaded former jeopardy in his trial for murder and the question was before this Court on his appeal.

*280Petitioner attacks two murder convictions on liis plea of guilty by habeas corpus, though no plea of former jeopardy was filed, no appeal was taken and the judgments of conviction are final.

This Court has held…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Hultin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1961
  2. Garza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1963
  3. Lopez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1961
  4. Martinez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1961
  5. Perry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1961

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