Spurgeon E. Bell Papers.

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Spurgeon E. Bell Papers.

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This small collections consists mainly of Judge Bell's degrees, honors and awards. There is little correspondence or writings. There are legal materials and reel to reel recordings of Mario Sapet's trial and 6 LP recordings of the Brownwood murder trial that took place in March, 1952, for which Bell was the special prosecutor.

6 boxes, 6 linear feet.

South Texas College of Law Houston, The Fred Parks Law Library

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South Texas College of Law Houston, The Fred Parks Law Library

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South Texas College of Law

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Texas. Court of Appeals (1st)

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Three characteristics of the judicial system in Texas distinguish it from the national norm: it has two appellate courts of last resort, its trial courts do not have uniform jurisdiction of subject matter, and its judges are chosen in partisan elections. The state has three levels of trial courts-district, county, and inferior-and there is no uniformity of jurisdiction among the courts at each level. To be sure of a trial court's jurisdiction, one must examine the statute that estab...

Sapet, Mario.

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Bell, Spurgeon E. 1908-1996

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Judge Spurgeon Bell (1908-1996), served as a faculty member in the South Texas College of Law for over fifty years and as the Chairman of the school's Board of Trustees. Bell was an attorney and then Judge for the 125th Civil District Court, 1953-1957, and later Associate and Chief Justice of the Texas First Court of Appeals, 1957-1973. From the description of Spurgeon E. Bell Papers. (South Texas College of Law). WorldCat record id: 237787838 ...