EX PARTE TRAFTON

No. 26542.

271 S.W.2d 814 (1954)

Ex parte William Forrest TRAFTON.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1954.

Appeal Dismissed October 14, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry S. Pollard, Austin, for appellant.

John Benn Shepperd, Atty. Gen. of Texas, V. F. Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., W. T. Williams, Jr., City Atty., Robert L. Burns, Asst. City Atty., Doren R. Eskew, Asst. City Atty., Austin, Wesley Dice, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


Appeal Dismissed October 14, 1954. See 75 S.Ct. 35.

WOODLEY, Judge.

This is an appeal from the order of District Judge Charles O. Betts refusing to discharge appellant Trafton and remanding him to the custody of the Chief of Police of Austin.

The charging part of the complaint under which appellant was convicted and fined in the Corporation Court alleged that he drove an automobile on an Austin street and "* * * did then and there unlawfully drive...

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