Court Opinion

ID: 4902286
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-03 00:50:53.533875+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:12:58.241252
License: Public Domain

GRAVES, Presiding Judge.
This is an attempt on the part of the relator to appeal from a judgment rendered in the corporation court of Kerrville in Kerr County wherein he was fined the sum of ten dollars. Thereafter, relator appealed from this judgment to the county court, where he was again fined the sum of ten dollars. He now attempts to appeal to this court by a writ of habeas corpus alleging the faultiness of the complaint under which he was tried. He has also filed some affidavits in this cause which are not pertinent to any point at issue herein.
The writ of habeas corpus cannot serve as a substitute for an appeal, especially where no appeal lies from the action of the court under the original conviction. Article 53, Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P., is plain and reads as follows:
“The Court of Criminal Appeals shall have appellate jurisdiction co-extensive with the limits of the State in all criminal cases,. This article shall not be so construed as to embrace any case which has been appealed from any inferior court to the county court or county court at law, in which the fine imposed by the county court or county court at law shall not exceed one hundred dollars.”
Furthermore, relator is not entitled to a writ of habeas corpus because it is shown by the allegations, as well as the affidavit filed herein, that he is not under restraint by anyone at the present time, but is at large, and that he has not paid the fine assessed by the judgment of the county court.
In Corley v. State, 141 Tex. Cr. R. 478, 149 S.W. (2d) 99, we held that where the prosecution originated in the justice court, and after an appeal to the county court, and on a trial de novo, a judgment was entered assessing a fine of $10.00 against the defendant, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals had no jurisdiction of an appeal from the judgment of the county court. See notes under Article 53, Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P.
The application for a writ of habeas corpus is denied.