Case Name: Ex parte BEAL et al.
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1952-05-21
Citations: 250 S.W.2d 221
Docket Number: No. 25865
Parties: Ex parte BEAL et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 250
Pages: 221–222

Head Matter:
Ex parte BEAL et al.
No. 25865.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 21, 1952.
Rehearing Denied June 25, 1952.
Houchins & Goodenow, Joe M. Block, Houston, for appellant.
Price Daniel, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Calvin B. Garwood, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. of Texas, George P. Blackburn, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORRISON, Judge.
This' record reflects that appellants (re-lators in the court below) seek to invoke the appellate jurisdiction of this Court to review the action of the' trial court in refusing to discharge them from custody under a judgment adjudging them to be juvenile delinquents and committing relators to the custody of the Texas Youth Development Council.
Article 5, Section 5, of the Constitution of this State, Vernon's Ann. St. Const, art. 5, § 5, limits the appellate jurisdiction of this Court to criminal cases. The judgments sought to be here nullified are of a class declared by the Legislature as appealable to the civil courts and do not possess the requisites necessary to constitute a judgment in a criminal case. See Articles 766, 783 and 784, C.C.P.
The appellate jurisdiction of this Court is not shown, and the purported appeal is dismissed. •