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409 S.W.2d 848

Harrison v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 31, 1966

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1966-12-31

Decided 1966-12-31

¶1OPINION

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

¶2The offense is driving while license was suspended with two prior misdemeanor convictions for offenses of the same nature alleged for enhancement; the punishment, confinement in the county jail for six months and a fine of $100.00.

¶3The sole question sought to be raised by this appeal is appellant’s plea of former jeopardy. He bases this question upon his testimony that he plead guilty and paid a fine for the offense of failing to have a valid operator’s license in Judge Albert Lee’s Justice of the Peace Court in Humble. Even if we were to assume that the two offenses grew out of the same transaction, jeopardy would not be shown to have attached, because there is a failure to show that the case in Judge Lee’s Court was prosecuted upon an information “signed by the district or county attorney, officially,” as is required by Sec. 9 of Article 21.21, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P., 1965, so as to bring the same within the provisions of Article 28.13, V.A.C.C.P.

¶4Finding no reversible error, the judgment is affirmed.

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