Court Opinion

ID: 9671704
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:42:16.368767+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:00:45.399557
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DAVIDSON, Judge,
(dissenting).
This appellant’s parole was revoked by reason of his violation of the terms and conditions thereof by violating the laws of this state.
*574The trial judge found appellant guilty of those violations and, upon that finding, revoked the parole and ordered him to the penitentiary, without which adjudication the probation would yet be in force.
So this man goes to the penitentiary not because he has been lawfully indicted, tried, and found guilty of violating the laws of this state but because he has been judicially tried and by judicial decree convicted of such violations, all without the semblance of an indictment and trial by jury.
I have expressed myself upon the subject of revoking parole without according a trial by jury. Leija v. State, 167 Texas Cr. Rep. 300, 320 S.W. 2d 3; Gossett v. State, 162 Texas Cr. Rep. 52, 282 S.W. 2d 59.
I dissent to the affirmance of this case.