Court Opinion

ID: 9760076
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 00:40:07.499151+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:08.152517
License: Public Domain

DAVIDSON, Judge,
(concurring).
In concurring in the opinion of my brother Woodley, I make the following additional statements as to my views:
In a civil proceeding, the respondents, other than Judge Stovall, invoked the equity powers of the district court for relief. The district court granted the relief prayed for.
From that order, relators, the losing parties, appealed to the Court of Civil Appeals, where the appeal is now pending and undetermined.
Relators would have this court set aside the order of the district court and oust the Court of Civil Appeals of its jurisdiction and would have this court determine the case.
This, as a judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals I have neither the inclination nor the authority to do.
If State ex rel Flowers, et al v. Woodruff, et al, supra, authorizes such holding, then that case is wrong and ought to be overruled.
The presumption is that the Court of Civil Appeals will correctly determine the case before it.
It must be remembered that all prosecutions in a city or corporation court are conducted in and judgment is entered in the name of the State of Texas.
Relators, here, have no interest in the prosecution other than as representatives of the state.
*213The state has no right to appeal to or invoke the appellate jurisdiction of this court.