The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Mr. Jack Ross, Page 6
(ww#969)
and without reference to whether the person has signed a waiver of extradition in the State of Texas. 2. When a parolee or probationer is being supervised in one state for another state, neither being the State of Texas, and such person absconds to the State of Texas and his parole or probation is revoked, the state of original jurisdiction may take him into custody in Texas and retutn..him to its jurisdic- tion, without extradition proceedings, under Article 781c, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. 3. A person is not to be admitted to bail in Texas when he is on parole or probation from anothersstate, when his parole or probation has been revoked, and when the sending state is in the process of returning him to its jurisdiction. 4. When authorized and directed by the sending state, a parolee or probationer from another state who is being supervised in the State of Texas may be held in custody upon the order of the Administrator of the Compact for the State of Texas until a revo- cation warrant can be obtained from the sending state. Yours very truly, WILL WILSON Attorney General of Texas GLENN R. BROWN Assistant APPROVED: OPINION COMMITTEE W. V. Geppert, Chairman Joe McMasters L. P. Lollar Virgil Pulliam Mary K. Wall REVIEWED FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL BY: Houghton Brownlee, Jr.