Homan v. State

Citations

• 23 Tex. Ct. App. 212
• 4 S.W. 575
• 1887 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 53

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Right to Process for Witnesses.—The Constitution of this State (Bill of Rights, see. 10) guarantees to any one accused of crime the right to have compulsory process for his witnesses, and of this right it is not in the power of the Legislature to deprive him. In so far, therefore, as the act of the Eighteenth legislature “to provide for the payment of attached witnesses in felony cases” deprives a defendant of his right to an attachment for his absent witnesses, that act is unconstitutional and void.</p>