Ector, Mathew Duncan, papers, 1866-1879

Texas. District Court (6th District)

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Bonner, Micajah Hubbard

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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 ...

Ector, Mathew Duncan, 1822-1879

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General and judge Mathew Duncan Ector (1822-1879) was born to Hugh Walton and Dorothy (Duncan) Ector in Putnam County, Georgia. In the 1840s, Ector studied law at Greenville, Georgia; served one term in the Georgia Legislature; and married Louisia Phillips, who died in 1842. In 1850, he moved to Texas and the next year opened a law practice in Henderson, where he married Letitia M. Graham. In 1855, Ector became editor of the Henderson Democrat and a representative of Rusk County in ...