Court Opinion

ID: 9828782
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:44:06.852732+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:53.085786
License: Public Domain

On Motion of Appellant for Rehearing.
It is insisted in the motion that, even if the act of 1911 was valid in the respect referred to in the opinion, it did not authorize appellee to retain the sums, or any part of same, earned by him otherwise than in the criminal district court of Harris county, and therefore that the judgment should have been in appellaht’s favor for the sums earned out of said court by appellee as district attorney. It is argued that when the Legislature expressly declared in said act that the district attorney might retain part of the fees he earned in said court, and said nothing about his retaining the sums or any of same he earned out of said court, the effect was to •deny him a right to retain the sums or any of same he earned elsewhere than in said court, and to make it his duty to pay same over to Harris county. But we think the course pursued by the Legislature should, instead, be construed as meaning that the district attorney was bound to pay over to said county only the part he was expressly directed to pay over of the fees he earned, and was to retain as compensation for his services the fees he was not expressly directed to pay over to the county, whether same were earned in said court or out of it. The motion, therefore, is overruled.