Ex parte Dampier

Citations

• 24 Tex. Ct. App. 561
• 7 S.W. 330
• 1888 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 9

Syllabus

<p>Habeas Corpus—County Convicts—Statutes Construed.—The act of May 4, 1883, and that of March 1, 1887, all amendatory of Article 3603 of the Revised Statutes, which relates exclusively to the hiring out of county convicts, in no manner affect Article 3597 of the Revised Statutes, which has never been repealed nor changed in any respect. Under the provisions of the last named article, a county convict, against whom a fine and costs have been adjudged, and who, in default of the payment of the same, has been put to labor on the county farm, is entitled to receive a credit against his fine and costs of one dollar per day for each day that he labors; and, when he has labored on the county farm a sufficient length of time to satisfy fine and costs, at the rate of one dollar per day, he is entitled to his discharge.</p>