Ex parte Miller

By direct writ of habeas corpus relator seeks relief at our hands from restraint by the sheriff of Randall county who is holding him by virtue of a judgment of contempt punishing him by a fine of $25. Relator is an attorney, and on the 16th day of September, 1921, was engaged in defending a client then on trial in a criminal case in the district court of said county. Among other defenses relied on was that of former jeopardy, it being alleged in a plea presenting such defense that at a former time said client had been put upon trial for the same offense, and that without having kept the jury…