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386 S.W.2d 280

Ex Parte Martinez

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 16, 1964

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1964-12-16

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1968

2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relies on 171 Tex. Crim. 425 - Hultin v. State · Garza v. State · 171 Tex. Crim. 443 - Martinez v. State

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Decided 1964-12-16

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McDonald, judge.

¶1Petitioner, an inmate of the state penitentiary, brings this application for writ ■of habeas corpus in his own handwriting. When petitioner’s conviction reached this Court on appeal, the writer shared the view •of the majority and affirmed the case, from which position he has not departed. It is my view that the Juvenile Act and all hearings thereunder are civil and not criminal in nature. It necessarily follows that I do not believe that jeopardy attaches in juvenile courts as they are without jurisdiction of felony offenses.

¶2My views are fully set forth in the •opinion written by me in Hultin v. State, 171 Tex.Cr.R. 425, 351 S.W.2d 248, and in my dissenting opinions upon original submission and on rehearing in Garza v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 369 S.W.2d 36. The writer’s views are further stated in his concurring •opinion in Ex parte Sawyer, Tex.Cr.App., 386 S.W.2d 275.

¶3Presiding Judge Woodley concurs in the disposition of this cause, his position and reasons being stated in his original opinion upon the appeal of this case, Martinez v. State, 171 Tex.Cr.R. 443, 350 S.W.2d 929.

¶4Relief prayed for is denied.

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