Court Opinion

ID: 9774504
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:22:29.033696+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:09.242262
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SEARS, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent.
The majority contends an exception applies because appellant was “detained pending trial of another accusation against him to which the applicable period has not elapsed.” However, the “other accusation,” aggravated robbery, arises out of the same transaction and could have been brought against the appellant at the same time the murder charge was brought. This “stringing out” of the indictments is the very evil the appellate court found objectionable in Ex parte McNeil, 772 S.W.2d 488 (Tex.App.Houston [1st Dist.] 1989). That court held: “The Legal maneuvering by the State to obtain two indictments from one criminal episode does not alter the fact that McNeil was held for over 90 days before she was indicted on any charge.” McNeil at 491.
I would grant the writ of habeas corpus.