Court Opinion

ID: 9764817
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:41:09.277838+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:01.803930
License: Public Domain

CLINTON, Judge,
dissenting.
The function of The Great Writ is to provide a remedy when any person is restrained in his liberty. Article 11.01, V.A. C.C.P. Constitutionally guaranteed, it is “a writ of right, and shall never be suspended;” the Legislature has enacted laws “to render the remedy speedy and effectual.” Article I, Sec. 12. See Chapter Eleven, Y.A.C.C.P., every provision of which “shall be most favorably construed in order to give effect to the remedy, and protect the rights of the person seeking relief under it.” Article 11.04, V.A.C.C.P.
Today, one year and more than nine months since applicant filed his first origi*217nal application for writ of habeas corpus in this Court, his endeavors to achieve relief are frustrated by an exultation of form over substance such as to shame The Great Writ. There is no effort to construe “most favorably” legislative provisions intended and designed to give effect to the remedy and protect his rights, procedural rules and caselaw relating to amending defective bonds or any other notions of fairness and equity that serve to implement habeas corpus. Instead, the Court critically orders the proceedings dismissed.*
Adhering to the ageless maxim about “justice delayed,” I dissent.

 For whatever it is worth, the fact of the matter is that we were informed as early as May 15, 1985, that applicant had been released on bond. Since this Court had not so ordered, the only conclusion for us to reach was that some other court had. Rather than utilize its constitutional power "upon affidavit or otherwise to ascertain such matters of fact as may be necessary to the exercise of its jurisdiction,” Article V, Sec. 5, para. 3, we caused the Court to adhere to its adverse order, without prejudice to a fresh petition — the one that is now being dismissed, primarily for want of a bond acceptable to the majority.