EX PARTE COOKS

No. 07-97-0218-CR.

979 S.W.2d 53 (1998)

Ex parte George Ellis COOKS, Jr.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Amarillo.

October 9, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Brown, Lubbock, for appellant.

Travis Ware, Dist. Atty., Chad Meacham, Asst. Dist. Atty., Lubbock, for appellee.

Before BOYD, C.J., and DODSON and REAVIS, JJ.


BOYD, Chief Justice.

In this appeal from the denial of a pretrial writ of habeas corpus, appellant George Ellis Cooks, Jr. asserts that his retrial for the offense of aggravated robbery is barred by the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment to that constitution. He also asserts that his retrial would violate the double jeopardy clause of article 1, section 14 of our state...

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