Case Name: Ex parte Louie D. YOUNG, Jr.
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1956-01-11
Citations: 285 S.W.2d 749
Docket Number: No. 28009
Parties: Ex parte Louie D. YOUNG, Jr.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 285
Pages: 749–750

Head Matter:
Ex parte Louie D. YOUNG, Jr.
No. 28009.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 11, 1956.
Piranio, Piranio & Ballowe, by Angelo Piranio, Dallas, for appellant.
Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., William F. Alexander and George P. Blackburn, Asst. Criminal Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
WOODLEY, Judge.
Relator was found guilty in 1951 of the offense of burglary, and his punishment was assessed at 5 years, with sentence suspended. He was thereafter, on January 16, 1952, finally convicted, of a felony in the same court and assessed a five year term in the penitentiary, which it appears has been served.
On September 6, 1955, on the State's motion, the suspended sentence was ordered revoked because of the subsequent conviction of a felony, and appellant was sentenced to serve the term of five years, the sentence to begin at the expiration of the sentence in the subsequent conviction. ,
Appellant gave notice of appeal when so sentenced, and the trial court, being of the opinion that no appeal would lie because of the 1941 amendment of Art. 779, C.C.P., refused to fix the amount or permit recognizance or bond on appeal.
We granted relator's application for writ of habeas corpus and he is at large under bond fixed by this Court in this cause.
Art. 779, V.A.C.C.P., as amended provides that the validity or finality of the first conviction shall not be attacked by appeal or otherwise, "and no right of appeal shall exist to test the validity of the judgment of conviction, sentence upon which was suspended."
Millican v. State, 145 Tex.Cr.R. 195, 167 S.W.2d 188, and Kosel v. State, 145 Tex. Cr.R. 57, 165 S.W.2d 998, hold only that no appeal lies to test the validity of the conviction.
The question of whether or not there was sufficient ground to authorize the court to pronounce sentence which had previously been suspended (not the validity of the judgment of conviction) has been considered by this court on appeal. Cisneros v. State, 147 Tex.Cr.R. 123, 179 S.W.2d 313; Cooper v. State, 155 Tex.Cr.R. 28, 230 S.W. 2d 818; Trevino v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 274 S.W.2d 685.
The appeal is properly before us in our Cause No. 28,063, Tex.Cr.App., 285 S.W.2d 748, and relator is entitled to bond.
Relator will remain on bail allowed by this court in this cause until he enters into appeal bond in the appealed case, or until such appeal is finally decided.