Court Opinion

ID: 9469924
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:52:06.627961+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:37.836037
License: Public Domain

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
Except for the single below-noted reservation, I concur in all the majority opinion, particularly its holding as expressed in the last sentence of section III, and in the answer it gives to “the question presented” as stated in the first sentence of that section. I do not reach the question of whether the district court would have had jurisdiction if Spring had actually been incarcerated. Spring may pay his fine, as we assume he has the ability to do, or the State may collect it by levy of execution, and he may never in fact be imprisoned. See Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Articles 43.-01(a) and 43.07. I see no need for a broad concept of custody when dealing with a conviction under this minor misdemeanor, fine only, statute.