Ex parte Guzman, 62649
Decision Date | 21 November 1979 |
Docket Number | No. 62649,62649 |
Citation | 589 S.W.2d 461 |
Parties | Ex parte Camilo GUZMAN, Jr. |
Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
This is a habeas corpus proceeding under Article 11.07, V.A.C.C.P., and in accordance with Ex parte Young, 418 S.W.2d 824 (Tex.Cr.App.). The applicant seeks release from confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections under his conviction on a plea of guilty for the offense of murder with malice aforethought in Cause No. 3909 in the 36th Judicial District Court of San Patricio County on November 15, 1972, where punishment was assessed at twenty five years. Review of that judgment by appeal was not sought.
In his application for relief, applicant alleges that his conviction is void "by virtue of the fact that the Court was without jurisdiction to render judgment and sentence upon Petitioner's plea of guilty in that the indictment having been returned prior to an examining trial required by Art. 2338-1, Sec. 6(j), V.A.C.S. (repealed) is void; . . ." 1 Applicant urges that our decision in Ex parte Menefee, 561 S.W.2d 822 (Tex.Cr.App.), and others which follow Menefee are controlling in this case. We disagree.
At the hearing held on petitioner's application it was shown that he was fifteen years old at the time the offense was committed, and was sixteen when he was indicted. Accordingly, the District Court of San Patricio County, sitting as a Juvenile Court, had exclusive original jurisdiction over applicant's conduct. Art. 2338-1, Sec. 5(a), V.A.C.S. (repealed and replaced by V.T.C.A., Family Code Section 51.04(a) (Vernon Supp.1978-1979)). On June 20, 1972, however, the Juvenile Court, after a hearing, waived its jurisdiction and transferred the applicant to the 36th Judicial District Court of San Patricio County as an adult. See Art. 2338-1, Sec. 6(b), V.A.C.S. (repealed and replaced by V.T.C.A., Family Code Section 54.02(a), (c) (Vernon 1975)). On July 21, 1972, the applicant was indicted for the offense which forms the basis of this post-conviction proceeding.
In addition to the certification order and indictment, the record contains an order committing the applicant to jail and setting bail. This order is not dated and is captioned with the number assigned in the juvenile cause, but with a designation that the court was "Sitting as an Examining Court". However, testimony at the hearing on the present application by the District Attorney at the time of the original proceedings in 1972, established that this order was based upon a hearing which was held subsequent to the transfer by the Juvenile Court on June 20 and prior to return of the indictment on July 21 and that the juvenile cause number was used because no other number had been assigned to the case.
At the conclusion of the hearing, the trial court found, inter alia:
Accordingly, the trial court recommended that relief be denied.
The evidence before the trial court supports its finding that the indictment was returned after an examining trial and its conclusion that the indictment was not void. Contrary to applicant's allegations, the record affirmatively reflects that an examining trial was in fact held in the District Court to which applicant was transferred. That the juvenile court number appeared at the top of the order entered by the trial judge is not significant, in light of the remainder of the caption designating the 36th Judicial District Court as an "Examining Court" and the testimony that the hearing was held subsequent to the waiver of jurisdiction by the juvenile court and prior to return of the indictment. Menefee and its progeny are not in point.
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