Court Opinion

ID: 9680819
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:39:11.560168+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:30.714295
License: Public Domain

VOLLERS, Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the opinion of the Court except for paragraph III. I agree that the legislature has “provided by law” a limitation upon the “inherent powers” of the district courts by enacting Articles 2.09 and 4.16 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, but that limitation applies in the case before us only to the exercise of the powers of a magistrate. Since the petitioner’s complaint as to custody does not result from the district court calling the petitioner before it to determine whether or not he wished to waive indictment, but only resulted from the district court’s exercise of jurisdiction over this cause as a magistrate, we are not called upon to rule on the issue of whether or not the district judge has inherent powers under Article 5, Section 8 of the Texas Constitution which enables him to call the accused before the court to determine whether or not he wishes to waive an indictment. Since this matter is not presented to us for review in this case, I think that we should make it clear that we are not deciding the issue.