EX PARTE CANTU

No. 04-95-00640-CR.

913 S.W.2d 701 (1995)

Ex parte Rachel CANTU, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Discretionary Review Refused March 6, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor M. Valdes, San Antonio, for Appellant.

Steven C. Hilbig, Criminal District Attorney and Edward F. Shaughnessy, III, Assistant Criminal District Attorney, San Antonio, for Appellee.

Before CHAPA, C.J., and RICKHOFF and STONE, JJ.


OPINION

RICKHOFF, Justice.

This appeal questions our jurisdiction and raises double jeopardy concerns. Appellant, Rachel Santos Cantu, filed a special plea alleging that double jeopardy barred her criminal prosecution for injury to a child because she had been punished for that act by losing temporary custody of her children. The trial court accepted the motion as a writ of habeas corpus and denied relief. In two points of error, Cantu maintains the trial...

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