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OFFICEOFTHEATTORNEYGENERALOF**TEXAS**

Honorable A.’ C. Turner, Uarden sexar Prsson sprtem mmtAville, fexra

the Sheriff of Walker fordccweyaniw~ to suoh al, uponthe order of

the above stated

b?.the pr;il obaeroed b

p” .#iysloiawat Huntavillb and ahall be sa.id phyrloisn **and** the HardenOFthe Penltentiaryj andvhen, in the judgmant of said phy~iolan or vardbn, suoh oonviot Is insaneand should be transferred to one of theStato Hospitals for the treatment of the IAX(ILII~~, then elther~ @aid prison physioien or raid warden shall go before the County Judge of 

### WalkerCounty, Texas, andmakeaffidavit to said. faot, andthe County Judge &all. ” forthwith prooeed to try aaid convlot in the 8ame aanner aa other psraons andunder the samerples *Honorable A. C. Turner, page g

of procedure as apply to the trial of oitloeno vho beoome lnosae. Upontrial, if said oonvlct is found to be lnbano, the county judge before vhom ho is tried shall issue his varrant for transfer of said oonvlot to one of the 8tato Xoapftala for the treatment of the insane or other place pro-

. vided hereafter by lav provided the provision of this lav shall not appiy to prisoners under oen- ~tenooof death and acnflned vithin the State Penitentiary.” It vi11 be notioed that, 

### vhllethestatuteooaferr upon’the~.oountyj-0 of Ualker Oounty authority to order the transfer of, the conYiot fdund Lnoaneto one of the State Hospitals for the treatment of the insane, yet it does not speally vhethor the prisoner shall be conveyed to the State Hoopita1 by an agent of the Prison System or by someother offiaer. IS the aounty aourt has authority to order the oonveyanae to be modeby the sheriff of Walker County, ouch authority must be found in the general power of the uourt aowing out of its juriodiotlcn over ,the luuaoy trial.

boation 15 of AH&ale V of the Texaa Constitution provides in part t

“The County Court shall

. . . transact all business appertaining: to deoeaoed persons, minora, Idiots, lunatios, persons non aomposmentia and oommon

drunkards 4 , .I and the County Court, or judge thereof,,ohall hiivopower to issue vrits of injunctions, mandamus andall writ8 aeoesaary to the e~oroemont of the jurladlotioa of said Court.

. . .Theapplicable rule is thus stated In 11 Texas Jurisprudence, page 727, Seotl.on 19:

I St is an unoontrovorted general prinoiplo ih&‘*evory regularly oonotitutod oowt has Inherent pover to do all things that are reaoonably neoesoary for the amiatratioa of juotiae vlthln the scope of ’ its jurisdiction andto prevent anyabuoe of its prooeoo.t

“This inoludeo authority to carry into effect ita~ovnjudgments, oentencoo anddecrees andto prevent Lnterferenoe therewith.”Honorrblo A, 0. Tumor, pago 3

It I8 therefore OCRopiaion that it 18 rithin the diooretlon of the oounty oourt of Valkor County, upon oanviation of lunaoy in that oourt, of b prisoner of th8 Texas Prison System, to order the insann prisoner to be delirersd by the varden of the Texas Prison bystem to the sheriff of lialker Oountyand by said sheriff ocmveyed to the atate Hoopita1 to vhioh the prisoner Is ooamittod, andthrt upoa reosipt of 8uahorder the warden is l Uthmi86d to so deliro~ the prisoner to the sheriff of Ualkn. County.

Wethink it appropriate to point out t&t, In rush aaro, tho order of tho aounty oourt of Ualkor County rhould opsoifio8lly &root tho rudon of tho Prison Syoton to dollrrr of Walkor Coonty for oonvoyanoo

Yours oory truly ATTORliBYQBWtAL ~Q~.~.TBXAfJ

BY Y. R. Allen

Aoolotant

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