Case Name: Ex parte CALLOWAY
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1951-04-04
Citations: 238 S.W.2d 765
Docket Number: No. 25275
Parties: Ex parte CALLOWAY.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 238
Pages: 765–766

Head Matter:
Ex parte CALLOWAY.
No. 25275.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 4, 1951.
Rehearing Denied May 9, 1951.
No attorney on appeal for appellant.
Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., Charles S. Potts, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, George P. Blackburn, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORRISON, Judge.
Relator filed a Writ of Habeas Corpus with the Honorable Henry King, Judge of the Criminal District Court #2 of Dallas County, Texas, who granted the same and made it returnable to this Court.
From the Writ it appears that relator was on June 24, 1939, convicted as an habitual criminal in the District Court of Tarrant County and given a life sentence.
Relator was at liberty by virtue of reprieves, extensions of reprieve, and a conditional pardon from 1941 until 1947.
On January 9, 1947, the Governor revoked a conditional pardon theretofore granted relator and ordered relator's return to the penitentiary to serve the balance of his original sentence and denied him-credit for any time while he was at liberty under clemency.
Relator contends that this revocation is void because the order of revocation does not show that he was guilty of a violation of any of the conditions of the conditional pardon.
The conditional pardon was predicated upon Executive Proclamation #4795 dated July 30, 1942, which provided that the same-might be revoked if relator "is guilty at any time of any misconduct or violation of the law or — for any other reason the Governor may deem sufficient."
This became a contract, and relator is bound by its terms.
This Court will not inquire into the reasons motivating the Governor in revoking relator's conditional pardon. The Writ is. denied.