Opinion

State Ex Relator McNamara v. Clark

  • 79 Tex. Crim. 559
  • 187 S.W. 760
  • 1915 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 296
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
Dec 15, 1915
Status
Published
On the bench
Davidson, Harper, Prendergast
Cited by
35 cases

“Whether wisely or unwisely, the people of this state in framing their Constitution divided the jurisdiction of the civil and criminal courts of final resort, conferring on the Supreme Court final jurisdiction in all civil matters, and upon [the Court of Criminal Appeals] final jurisdiction in all criminal matters.”

How later courts described this case

  • “Whether wisely or unwisely, the people of this state in framing their Constitution divided the jurisdiction of the civil and criminal courts of final resort, conferring on the Supreme Court final jurisdiction in all civil matters, and upon [the Court of Criminal Appeals] final jurisdiction in all criminal matters.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.

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