Court Opinion

ID: 9772354
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:15:19.107763+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:43.665740
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DAVIDSON, Judge,
(dissenting).
Here, again, is demonstrated the correctness of my views as expressed in my dissenting opinion in the case of Gossett v. State, 162 Texas Cr. Rep. 52, 282 S.W. 2d 59, to the effect that in order to revoke a probation because the probationer has violated the provisions of his probation it is necessary, in the trial of a criminal case, that such violation be determined in accordance with law.
This appellant is and here stands convicted of the crime of burglary in an ex parte hearing, without indictment and the benefit of a trial by jury, upon the rankest sort of hearsay and circumstantial evidence which my brethren hold amply sufficient to show his guilt.
If that be the law — and my brethren say that it is — then the right of trial by jury in this state no longer exists and our Constitution, which says that the right of trial by jury can not be abolished, is destroyed and no longer exists.
I respectfully dissent.