Case Name: Ex parte FOWLER
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1919-06-11
Citations: 213 S.W. 271
Docket Number: No. 5404
Parties: Ex parte FOWLER.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 213
Pages: 271–271

Head Matter:
(85 Tex. Cr. R. 436)
Ex parte FOWLER.
(No. 5404.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 11, 1919.)
Infants <®=>18 — Juvenile Coubt — Jurisdiction.
Under Vernon’s Ann. Code Or. Proc. 1916, art. 1198, and Vernon’s Ann. Oiv. St. Supp. 1918, art. 1798b, held, that the county court of Dallas county at law, No. 2, has jurisdiction to render judgment as a juvenile court.
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Dallas County; C. A. Pippen, Judge.
Application for habeas corpus by Elwood Fowler. From an order denying the writ, he appeals.
Affirmed.
E. A. Berry, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, J.
Relator appeals from an order of the district court of Dallas county denying his application for a writ of habeas corpus which was based upon the proposition that the county court at law of Dallas county No. 2 was denied jurisdiction to render judgment as a juvenile court. We find no brief referring to any authorities, though relator states in his application, as a reason for his contention, that the act in creating the court mentioned specifically withdraws from it the power to hear and determine criminal cases. We find in the Code of Crim. Procedure, Vernon's Crim. Stats., vol. 2, art. 1198, that it confers jurisdiction upon the county and district courts of the state to hear and determine cases against juvenile delinquents, ana in chap. 101, Acts of the 35th Legislature, p. 266, the following appears;
"The county court of Dallas county at law, No. 2, shall have exclusive concurrent civil and criminal jurisdiction of all cases, original and appellate, over which by the laws of the state of Texas, the existing county court of Dallas county, aj: law would have original and appellate jurisdiction."
This is carried forward in supplement to Vernon's Civil Statutes, vol. 1, p. 370, art. 1798b. The previously existing county court of Dallas county at law had concurrent jurisdiction with the county court in all civil and criminal cases. Vernon's Sayles' Civil Statutes, art. 1787.
In accord with these statutes, which are the only ones that have come to our attention upon the subject, we are constrained to conclude that the appellant's view that the court rendering the judgment against him was without jurisdiction is not sound.
The judgment is affirmed.
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