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**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN** 



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tIo5orable W. Ii. Moclain, pw 2

Vur statute directs that the Sheriff shall

_ sreoute the same; or citymarshal. and not some other peaoe oiflosr I thererore'doubt ii we 0fm read into the statute the word constable or *other:$oaoe 

### orri0e as contended by f&r.Kodges. Pleas&'sdvise U8 On the above question,and Iwill appreoiate the IlamB.” Article 4-41,

V. A. C. C. P., d&in88 a 08pAa8 88 *awrit Issued by the oourt or olerk,and directed *To any Sheriff or the State or Texasr oommandlnghim to arrest a person aooueed or an 

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and bring him berore that court forthwith, or on a day or at a term etated In the writ.* Article 453, V. A. C. C. P., state8 that a oapiasmap be exeoated by any oonstable or other peace offioer. V. A. C. C. P., Artlob 36, states that citymarshal8 are pa08 orricers. Article 918, V. A. C. C. P., whloh 18 found in Title 11 concerning prooedure In the juatlos

### and oorporatlon courts, 8t8tBs, "Ii the defendant be not in OU8tOdywhen Judgment i8 rendered, or ii he esoapes 

### mm oustody,thersert.er, a oaplae shall fsaue 

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### oonri’n6ment in jail until he is legally dlsoharged.* In the ease orEr parte Fernandez, 57,s. W. (2d) 576, the Court oi CriminalAppeals held that Itrtiole920, C. C. P., applied to a oa6e of oonviotion in the justloe gourt rather thanArticle 793, V. A. c. c, P., ror the reason thatArticle 920 had reference to judgments or conviotlon in oriminal aotions before a justloe oi the eaoe while Article 793 had referenoe to judgments

### 0r conv fotion in orimlnalaotions in oourta of higher jurisdiotion. The oourt used the following language, on page 579:

'The chapter in which artiole 920, 

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### 0r the peaoe, From what has been said it Is apparent that the statutoryenaOtment8 make a dletinotion on the aubdeot in hand with rerersnoe to the oonvlotion of a mirdrmeanor before the justioe of thepeaoe and the oonviotion of a misdemeanor in oourtr of higher jurisdiation.
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Polloulng the reasoning of the above quoted 08188,it fr .ouropinion thatArticle 913, siupra, would apply to a Oapias Issued by the juetloe court rather than Artiols 788, V.A.C.C.P. A oaplaa pro rine has been derined aa a writ r -.Iing In behalr and ror the benefit 0r a goverzzentalagenod”” , *to2 oolleotion or tine and mean8 literally,you take,,fortho fine." See Word8 and Phraemt!, Vol. 6, page 60. Thersfom, a oapiaa pro ri56 ir in reality a special type or warrant or arrest. One or the requieltes ror a warrant ireued by the juetioe of the peaoe a8 eet out by Artiole 885, V. A. c. C. P., Is that, *It 8hall be dir‘eotsdto the proper rherlif, oonstabla or fmme other person name4 therein.* Therefore, it 18 Our opinfoh that the jud.loe of the peaoe may, ii 8% desirer to do so, lesue the aapIa@ pro fine In the name or Ethel State of Texaae, and dlreot it to the eltymarehal. Xi the $l8tiOe Oi the5" aoe dirootr the oa iae to the oity -mares rugh ottynkarsha would be authorize i to 8OXVO it. Ho~~ver,~the’juidioe of the peaoe ia dot required to dixeot the aapiar to the oitymarshal ii he doe8not iaee lit to do 80, but he may direct the oaplar to "the proper sherifi, o0Sl8tablOor ,aomeother person named therein* as provided by Utiole 885, rupra ,



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