Case ID: sw2d_189/html/0741-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte CARSON.
    No. 23237.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 17, 1945.
    Baskett & Parks, of Dallas, for appellant.
    Ernest S. Goens, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Mrs. Carson and Mrs. Jordan lived in adjoining houses but the evidence indicates that they were not neighborly. In August, 1944 Mrs. Jordan filed with a justice of the peace an affidavit seeking to have Mrs. Carson put under a peace bond. Officers were called and investigated the circumstances upon which the affidavit was predicated, but made no arrest. The magistrate had no trial upon such affidavit until in May, 1945. Nine months had elapsed during which time Mrs. Carson was under no restraint so far as any peace bond would have effected. Upon the trial in May, 1945, the magistrate required relator to give a peace bond in the sum of $10,000. In default of such bond she was placed in jail, whereupon she applied to the district judge for a writ of habeas corpus asking release upon the ground that the evidence did not warrant the requirement of a peace bond. Upon a hearing the district judge declined to discharge relator but required of her a peace bond in the sum of $2,000. From such order this appeal was taken.

It would add nothing to the jurisprudence of the state to recite the evidence which re-fleets an unhappy situation beween people whom circumstances had made neighbors. We have reviewed the evidence and think it fails to meet the requirements demanded under Arts. 79 and 80, C.C.P., as construed in Ex parte Schmidt, 145 Tex.Cr.R. 303, 167 S.W.2d 1026; Ex parte Allen, 113 Tex.Cr.R. 73, 19 S.W.2d 58; Ex parte Wilkerson, 102 Tex.Cr.R. 336, 278 S.W. 426.

The judgment is reversed and relator is ordered discharged.