Ex parte Ambrose

170 S.W.2d 731, 145 Tex. Crim. 582, 1943 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 827

• Court: Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
• Decided: March 31, 1943
• Docket: No. 22519
• Status: Published

Opinions

KRUEGER, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Honorable Otis T. Dunagan, Judge of the 7th Judicial District Court of Texas, declining to discharge appellant from the custody of the sheriff upon the hearing of a writ of habeas corpus.

It appears from the transcript that appellant was tried and convicted in the District Court of Upshur County of the offense of rape and his punishment assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for a period of five years, from which judgment of conviction he appealed to this court; that upon final submission of the case to this court the judgment of the trial court was affirmed, as will appear from 165 S. W. (2d) 188. When the mandate of this court reached the clerk of the District Court of said county, appellant being out on bond, a capias was issued and placed into the hands of the sheriff who, by virtue of said warrant, took appellant into custody. He then applied to the aforesaid judge for a writ of habeas corpus and prayed that upon hearing thereof he be ordered discharged. In the application for said writ, which appears to be duly verified, he charges many irregularities on the part of the trial court. However, the record is not accompanied by any statement of facts, but the judgment shows that evidence was introduced upon the hearing thereof. In the absence of a statement of facts we are not in a position to say that the court committed any error in declining to discharge appellant. The application for the writ, although sworn to, is but a pleading and does not prove itself. See Ex parte Bowers, 131 Tex. Cr. R. 273.

Therefore the judgment of the trial court is in all things affirmed.

The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.