Court Opinion

ID: 9681300
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:47:49.390467+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:33.167071
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on appellant's motion for rehearing.
DAVIDSON, Judge.
In a motion for rehearing evidencing much study and research, supplemented by able oral presentation, appellants insist that they are unjustly and without authority of law deprived of their liberty, and that the Juvenile Delinquency Act, Art. 2338-1, Vernon’s R. C. S., which forms the basis of their confinement, is invalid.
As pointed out originally, appellants, for redress, seek to invoke the appellate jurisdiction of this court by an appeal to this court from the order of the district judge denying the relief prayed for.
The appellate jurisdiction of this court is, by the Constitution, limited to criminal cases. The record before us fails to reflect that appellants’ incarceration or restraint is by reason of a judgment in a criminal case; no criminal statute is shown to have been violated; the judgment was not based upon a complaint, information, or indictment, and none of the requisites of a trial in a criminal case appear.
Whether the proceedings against appellants were civil in nature is not before us. Our appellate jurisdiction attaches only in a criminal proceeding, which this record fails to reflect.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.
Opinion approved by the court.