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Ex Parte Eldridge

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Jan 21, 1914
162 S.W. 1149 (Tex. Crim. App. 1914)

Opinion

No. 2958.

Decided January 21, 1914.

Pool Hall — City Charter and Ordinance — Custody.

Where the record on appeal disclosed that relator is not in custody and has not been since he gave notice of appeal to this court, the appeal must be dismissed.

Appeal from the District Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. R.H. Buck.

Appeal from a conviction of running a pool hall; penalty, a fine of $20.

The opinion states the case.

No brief on file for appellant.

C.E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State. — Cited Ex parte Branch, 36 Tex.Crim. Rep.; Ex parte Parvin, 63 id., 512.


In this case appellant shows that he was in custody by virtue of a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Fort Worth. He sued out a writ of habeas corpus before Hon. R.H. Buck, judge of the District Court of the Forty-eighth Judicial District. Upon a hearing he was remanded, and gave notice of appeal to this court. The record discloses that he is not in custody, and has not been, since he gave notice of appeal to this court. It has been so often decided that this court will not entertain an appeal in habeas corpus cases unless the relator is in custody of the officers, it seems unnecessary to cite authorities, but see Ex parte Parvin, 63 Tex. Crim. 512 , and cases there cited.

Appeal dismissed.

Dismissed.


Summaries of

Ex Parte Eldridge

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Jan 21, 1914
162 S.W. 1149 (Tex. Crim. App. 1914)
Case details for

Ex Parte Eldridge

Case Details

Full title:EX PARTE A. ELDRIDGE

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Date published: Jan 21, 1914

Citations

162 S.W. 1149 (Tex. Crim. App. 1914)
162 S.W. 1149