Case Name: Ex Parte Lee Scott
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1920-02-04
Citations: 86 Tex. Crim. 591
Docket Number: No. 5630
Parties: Ex Parte Lee Scott.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 86
Pages: 591–591

Head Matter:
Ex Parte Lee Scott.
No. 5630.
Decided February 4, 1920.
Habeas Corpus—Indictment—Detention of Relator.
Where relator claimed release from custody, upon the ground that the evidence was insufficient to authorize his detention after an examining trial, and it appeared to this court that pending this appeal the grand jury had found a bill of indictment against him for the offense upon which he was committed, the appeal will be dismissed.
Appeal from the District Court of Fayette, in vacation, tried below before the Hon. M. C. Jeffrey, judge.
Appeal asking release from custody after being permitted by examining trial under a thousand dollar bail.
The opinion states the case.
John T. Duncan, for relator.
Alvin M. Owsley, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Judge.
—This is an appeal from the order of the District Court refusing to release the relator from custody. It appears from the order of the district judge that the relator had been held by the examining court under $1000 bail to await the action of the grand jury. The bad was reduced by the district judge to $300. The release is sought upon the ground that the evidence was insufficient to authorize the detention of the relator. We will not inquire into that question, for the reason that it has been duly made to appear here that pending this appeal the grand jury has found a bill of indictment against the relator, charging him with the offense of assault with intent to murder, this charge growing out of the same alleged offense that was the foundation for the complaint which was before the District Court.
The relator now being held under the indictment, and not under the -process issued on the complaint, is not in position to demand his release, and following the precedents established by this court, the appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.