Case Name: Ex Parte LeRoy Turner
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1928-02-01
Citations: 108 Tex. Crim. 682
Docket Number: No. 10919
Parties: Ex Parte LeRoy Turner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 108
Pages: 682–682

Head Matter:
Ex Parte LeRoy Turner.
No. 10919.
Delivered February 1, 1928.
The opinion states the case.
No brief filed for relator.
Sam D. Stinson, State’s Attorney, and Robert M. Lyles, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
By an original application a writ of habeas corpus is sought for the purpose of relieving applicant from restraint by the superintendent of the county farm of Smith County, where he is held by virtue of a commitment issued by the county judge of said county.
We are met at the threshold of our consideration of the application by the fact that same is sworn to before the attorney for the applicant. This court uniformly-declines to give validity to affidavits made before the attorney for such affiants. Maples v. State, 60 Tex. Crim. Rep. 171; Garza v. State, 145 S. W. 591; Hogan v. State, 147 S. W. 871; Burnett v. State, 165 S. W. 581; Hicks v. State, 75 Tex. Crim. Rep. 461; Sanford v. State, 79 Tex. Crim. Rep. 346; Steele v. State, 87 Tex. Crim. Rep. 588; Gibbs v. State, 99 Tex. Crim. Rep. 186; Garner v. State, 100 Tex. Crim. Rep. 626.
The application not being properly sworn to will be dismissed, and it is accordingly so ordered.
Dismissed.