Opinion ID: 410948
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Text: 1 This is an appeal by Caldwell, the Houston Chief of Police and defendant below, and the State of Texas, intervenor below, from a judgment arising out of a federal habeas corpus proceeding brought under 28 U.S.C. Secs. 2241 and 2254 (1976). The district court reached the merits, and held that section 38.02 of the Texas Penal Code, the Failure to Identify law, was unconstitutional on its face. 516 F.Supp. 1223, 1231 (S.D.Tex.1981). Caldwell and the State of Texas raise several points of error on their appeal. However, because we hold that the district court did not have subject matter jurisdiction in the case, we reverse without reaching the merits.