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<div class="ocr">aPacqqe AZav tO TRIBE COMIN RLAS.
(ow ZEUMN AS

GERALD C. MANY
TAREE BEEARES

.vesvees, (Pex vas

March 22, 1050

AIK eee tab:

Hote 50 2 Suchanan, dr. Opinion No, 0-484
County Avterney Ret Procedure ts be followed by
Ved Verda County County Clerk es relates to
bol Eric, Yexes ocm@uitmant unser Article

‘ O27, Ge ¢ * Pe
Deas Sins

With further reference to your etter of Fetousry
oy, 1939, we wish to advise that wo have considered Pre -
quest for an opinion baped on tha following peracray

yor Lettert |

*y defentant unter indistment for SOT
anterposed insanity as « defense. He was

om that fasve and found te be insand

the time of Pant ab, the tin’ the elbeasd

offense ccourredy .

"Me district ordered the Aefentant.
eomnitied te the oultely ae tie ahavhff for fure
Shey order of the coumy doles. Py orise of she
 eomatty seize, See e eat the Gefentint win, reure
sheriff and the wig. ponerse
ed to the State Hospital fer treatnant, Te dom
mitment bas been $e the county elerice” —

Yeu desive to knew the precedure to follew with
refepente to the comelteent in quéetion: |

“Arte G8Be . To commtt insane derendgat <
If a defendant te found to ba insane, the gourt

eneadi mabe end have entered the wivetes an
order committing the de to the cusbedy
of the ane ateriff, to ve kept eubject to the fure.

ther cedex of the coumy of the county.

“Art. ORT. Confined in eoyium ~~
When « defendant has been cca, cseotings. sual.
in the preoeding articie, tae pros
forthwith be certified te tne sims cep mae
euali at once take the
the defendant confined n the ne domathe have
tii he beeome eane,*
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<div class="ocr">Hone Se Be DucnanaN, Ireg Maroh 22, 1030, Pace 2

in answering your question as to the procedure
to be fsllowed by tie county clerk in such cases suere
the defendant is adjuiged insano before trial, the state
utes do not appear to outiin: any procedure with refer
once t. ths cummitmant after aun hag been retuned,
The statutes not ceing claerer on the point ruised, 1

euagest te you the guatomesy presedune which has heen

owed by. many cvuntles, too our knovlodce, and that
is tc :iwe the cause a mumber and place in tne probate
eiimutce of the county sourt as aecorded lumey dudgmente.
The comaitment diself, being « process iasued out of

tus county court and returnable to such court should re-
main in custody of the county clerk.

It ia, therefere, the opimion of this Pepert-
ment that where’ these statutes de not apeaifically o
line the procedure to Loeliewed by the count 4
on the veturn of a o tuent wader Article » Vernon's
Amotated Code of Crimfmal Frocedure, 1925, aweh conuit~
ment - of a defeniant, adjudged insane before trial on ine
‘diotment, should remain im castody of the county clerk,
be assigned a maber and given a @ in the r
of the prevate court an accorded nta in lumsy hear~

t
Very truly yours
APFROVEDS | , ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS

fa/ *. Fe Moore | | ty /a/ Ware ce Ro King

FIRS? ASSISTANT ATTORNEY (J, He Kings Anstatant

| GECKRAL OF TEAAS

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