Case ID: sw_236/html/0725-02.html
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Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte RIDDLE.
    (No. 6312.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Nov. 9, 1921.)
    Habeas corpus <@=>4 — Cannot serve office of appeal.
    A writ of habeas corpus cannot serve the office of an appeal.
    Appeal' from District Court, McLennan County; Pilchard I. Munroe, Judge.
    Robert J. Riddle was convicted of murder. Shorn an order remanding him on application for writ of habeas corpus, he appeals.
    Ha-beas corpus proceeding ordered consolidated with appeal in main case.
    G. W. Barcus, of Waco, for appellant.
    R. H. Hamilton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   HAWKINS, J.

Appellant was indicted by a grand jury composed of ten men and two women. Upon that indictment he was tried, convicted, sentenced, and gave notice of appeal to this court. After this he sought release under habeas corpus proceedings, attacking the validity of the indictment. He was remanded, and from that order appeals.

The appeal in the main case is now pending in this court under No. 6596, but has not been submitted. [Since decided, and reported at 236 S. W. 725.] This habeas corpus proceeding is ordered consolidated with that case, to the end that the questions raised may be determined in an orderly way. A writ of habeas corpus cannot serve the office of an appeal. See many cases cited under note 3, art. 160, Vernon’s P. C.