461 SW2D 630 - Williams v. State

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably Hoover v. Beto (1972), Jacobs v. Theimer (1975)

3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

¶1OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

¶2The petitioner, an inmate of the Texas Department of Corrections seeks discharge from confinement under conviction for theft from the person in Cause No. 10,437 in the District Court of Walker County on May 28, 1957.

¶3The Honorable Ernest Coker, Judge of the 12th Judicial District, held a hearing and on August 30, 1970, filed his findings of fact and conclusions of law and certified the same to this Court. We have examined the record and find that his conclusions are supported.

¶4He found that petitioner was not represented by counsel; that he was indigent; that he was not offered counsel, and did not waive the right to counsel. He concluded that such conviction was void and we agree. Ex parte Auten, Tex.Cr.App., 458 S.W.2d 466.

¶5Petitioner is ordered discharged from confinement under such conviction.