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*1 OFFICEOFTHEATTORNEY GENERALOFTEXAS AUSTIN
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Honorable ~Joe J. Flmhar, Page 8
but 8~21 be ntupettaea until tha aeOi8f0n Appeals has bean the Court*of $$dnal .
n00ma. we shall file
00nxiaar whether or not the oourt may legally aentenoe &nnle Smith In vaootlon. The annwer ln no. XII the oaae of Jim Dodd ~a. The state, 77 Dr. B.
MS. 179 8. w. 564, 8pperl was had rrom a oonvlotlon of bur-
“The term a? oourt at rhloh appellant adjauraad without a a~nt~noe. fn was trrea - - _ . _- ~vaoat10n ona lli ohmmere tho wage ntaraa the aalt~no~. This under our statute la the final Judgaont, and an appeal to this oourt oan not 110 until aontttnoo has men pronouuooa. sat- tea00 murt b8 pronounoea aumg torm 0s the aourt. The court oan not aontutoo a ao-
~feadant la vacation. whon aourt aajourma
his authorfty ovar tho oaae oloaa4, whan notiea of appeal hnd been given to this ,oourt, exempt in oasoa apaolally prerldea by statute. This pronounolng of sentmoo in not aothorimed
C nor la it authorhod at any tlmo in taoatlon, exoopt during a texm of the oowh. The Aaaiat-
ant Attonrev @moral mavos to alnmlma the ap-
eta1 for’ this roa~on 8na it murt be 8tm8in~a.* D8~i48on, J.) P
Slnoe the dare&ant oaanot ba SentenOea in vooation, question, e you rtata It, now orixoa as to whether tb oourt mgt patpom that ootlon until the next ngular tona, whioh la aer6sol mOntha honoo, or moJ the judge ooll a apoolol taPal ior purpose.
Art1910 19S0, Retimed Clvll Stotutoa, 1989: *Whenover 0 alstrlot Judge deetim it odrlaabia to hold apeolal tmm of the ai8tri0t oourt in any oounty In hi. dlatrlot, 8uah apealal toxm mar bo held; ona auoh Juaga may oonvono ~u$hqte$m at t&a0 whioh may be fixed by hlm.. .
The oot or fixing and holding a apeolal term or oourt la within the dlatrlot judge’. sound diaoretlon. Parry vs.
Honorable Joo J. Insher, Poe.3 96 s. w. teal 854.
wolaton, (O.&A.) At auoh .a term tho judge may pronoun00 aontenoe. In oaae o? I!!% parts Young, 49 Or. R. S36,r OS & W. 100, ap- pllO8nt was OhmgOd and ~nrlotod of mqlor and his punlabont araoeaoa at death. It woe ap&molsd to tho Court of Crlmlnal Appeals whore the jud@tont was afflrm+l, and a motlon’for ro- hearing worruled. Tho mandato 108 188uOd after the rogulor term of tho dlatrlot oourt had expired. The judge oallod.8 pooiol pplioant unqer the statutory tam of .tha oourt for the aolo~ purpose of aentonolng
authority of the Auto g9th Leglalature, Chapter 83, Pago 116, the gist of whloh Is now found In ArtIole 19gO. aupra. The defendant applied for writ of hdoaa oorpua. eTho-Court of Crlalual Ap&ala denied flndlng *It woe oloarly within the powor OS the writ. that *to 6aU. the apoolal aoa~lon of the Dlatrlot Court
tha apeolflo purpose of aontemolng 8pp1100nt.~ YUPthOr, .in the oau8o of EX pOrti Soya, SO Cr. 8. SO9j 96 8. II. 1080, we find a praotloolly Ia*ntloal faot a1tuatlo~. There, Eenaoraon, J-, apo~king for the Court of Or-1 Appeals aalar
bThIa statute was oOn6itruod by this oourt in 151 park Young, 15 Tour Ot. tip,, 88gi and It wZa thare.hel6.that aala statute authorixed thajuage of tha airtriot oourt ot say oounty in this Btate, to 00rmono 0 apooIal term of
hla oourt at time whfoh mcly ‘bo fired by him. We think the propoaitlon there onnouuoeQ, la oonxtrulng aala statute, la 0 aufflolent
anawar to this appllootlon. We would observe, howwor, the Uonstltutloa (ortlole~S,aeo- tlon 7) &Ives plenary power to the Legislature
to anthsrlse the holding of spool81 torius of the alatrlot follower oourta~ we ~quoto thororrom, 08
~‘Tho Loglalaturo #hall hare power, by general or 8paolal holaing of apaolal lows, to authorleo tho
terms of-the oourt, or the
horalng 0r lloro than two toraw in any ootmty for the aiapatoh or ~ua5.nesa.* Of oourao,
the Iaglalature oould authorlao the judgo to fix the aato 611 those torme.
“Did the Aot of the Twonty-Ninth Logla- loturo npool that port of tho old law (Ro-xi-:x& vised Statutes, ortloloa 11X5-4) whioh roqulrod
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Honorable Joe J. Fisher, Pago 4
saLd order to be mado at a pnooding tora tho dlatrlot oourt? It would seem that
one of the purpoaaa of the now atotutea was
to obvlato thla,;an$ to authoriw the’ judgo
In rooatlon term of hula to order a 6poolol
oourt; Saotlone 1 and I! of the now sot in
offoot re-onaotod sol& above nmntlonod moo-
tlone of .tho old aot, leaving oft any refer- noe to “” entry of the brdor durlag a rogu- lar torm.%torootor, the longuogo of thm norj atatuta, ~ti ef00t ollmlnotor the laea iihet
the order must be 'witoroti during term time.
Tho 5uQo la authorima, whom ho doom6 it
adrlaobla to ord!r a apoolal tonn, and au-
thorlti~:&- to oonvono qtoh apoolal~ term
Or tho sM+kt tlmo whlah may bb fired ‘rho& ‘in this oonnooticin, ~q., take It,
by him. doob not ~mror t,o plaae, but to the t$mo when or ooprao, ho iuullt ho may beam If odrlaoblo.
fix the +ow or ,tJao ,oourt baron ha oon~onoa
it. We zolght state, $n parsing, as ,w under- It wee one -0s. the purpoaa 0s -thil, new rtand aot. if not the main purpose, to expedite of a oortaln olW8, of’
trial and diapoaltlon
oriasa’~w&loh have beoomo mom or l*ati prora-
lent in this aountry, ana it was intedea %O.: .. in vaootloa, to 0011 a
outhorlqe apoolal the ‘judge, tapa eY ‘-t.he oourt,~ and as ,a nwi roaturo of tb, aot, gore him power to ampanal the gmna 5~x7 ~to lndlot orreaaera, ,-a, try auoh It, will be **en on0 of the main oaaoa.
objeota er tm l nao+meat would be aefratoa, if ‘the 00urt ,ahoula bo 80~llea -to wilt the oon- nnlng 0s~ a re@io* term ‘mr0r0 ha ,acitia ,~a11 0 apaolal term of his oouxkn
In ooaol~alon, we wlah to point out that Artlolo 1923, Rori~od Oltil stotutoa, prwlalng r0r oxtena’ion ~of 0 term of oourt woe not oonalderod hero booouao the exproaa wording of any posalble pplioation that statute pnoludoa to this faot situation; viz;, uWhonorer a alatrlot aourt ihall be in the mldat of the trial of a oouaa when the t&no for the oxplratlon or the term or E&d oourt arrives * * ‘r the judgo IS 8uthorlzOd
Honorable Joe T. Flahor, PO@ 5
to ortona the kmb (Unfloroooring oura 1.
we balioto that this fully auswera your Inquiry. Yours Gory truly, ATTORNEY G-L OF TEXAS Approved l?or 18, 1941 (0) Grover Sallerr
Flrat Aaal8tant
Attorney Oenaral BY (a) Wm. J. Fanning
Aaslatant BY (a) Crundy Wllllfmn