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2 Tex. Ct. App. 295

Ex parte Peyton

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided July 1, 1877

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1877-07-01

<p>Habeas Corpus.—Being arrested by a city marshal, by virtue of a copias pro fine issued from a mayor’s court, the relator sued out habeas corpus before the county court, which dismissed his writ, and he appealed to this court, giving recognizance for his appearance in the county court to abide the decision of this court. On motion to dismiss the appeal, held, that, unless it was shown that the relator is in the custody of the city marshal, this court has acquired no jurisdiction, and therefore the motion to dismiss is sustained.</p>

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Decided 1877-07-01

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Ector, P. J.

¶1The appellant, as appears from the record, was arrested by W. F. Morton, marshal of Dallas, under a writ of copias pro fine issued for the enforcement of a fine adjudged against him by the mayor’s court of said city of Dallas. He sued out a writ of habeas corpus, and was carried before the county court of Dallas county, and the county court, on the hearing of the writ of habeas corpus, refused to release the appellant from the custody of said marshal. Thereupon the appellant gave notice of appeal to this court, and entered into a recognizance to perfect his appeal.

¶2The assistant attorney general has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, because the recognizance does not state any offense known to the law; and, second, because the record does not show that appellant was in custody.

¶3The motion to dismiss the appeal is granted. This court cannot acquire jurisdiction on appeal on the trial of the writ of habeas corpus in this case, unless the appellant is shown to be in the custody of the marshal of the city of Dallas. The appeal is dismissed.

¶4Dismissed,

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