Records 1876-1892

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Records 1876-1892

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Records consist of minutes, opinions, dockets, indexes, account books (all in bound volumes) and case files, dating 1876-1892, that document the activities of the Texas Court of Appeals. The activities of the court are most thoroughly documented through the minutes and opinions. Bound opinions should be supplemented by published opinions or reports. The dockets have gaps, although the general index is apparently complete for the entire period of the Court of Appeals (plus the Court of Criminal Appeals to 1920). Case files are almost totally absent.

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Texas. Court of Appeals

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The Court of Appeals was created by the Texas Constitution of 1876, Article V, Section 4, which removed all criminal jurisdiction from the Supreme Court. Organized by the legislature effective May 1876, the Court of Appeals had final and exclusive appellate jurisdiction in all cases not appealable to the Supreme Court; this included all criminal appeals (for both felonies and misdemeanors), and all civil appeals of which the county courts had original or appellate jurisdiction. The ...