Ex Parte Jennings
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Prom Wichita County. Original habeas corpus proceedings asking release under a judgment of contempt for refusal to testify before the grand jury. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
LATTTMORE, Judge.
—This is an application for habeas corpus on behalf of relator Jennings, who was fined $100 and committed to the county jail of Wichita County by order of Hon. E. W. Napier, District Judge of said county, for contempt, in that he had refused to answer certain questions propounded to him by the grand jury of said county.
A serious attack is made upon the manner of selection of the grand jury in question, but in view of our disposition of this case we will not pass on said proposition.
It may be well to keep in mind certain general principles applicable herein. Chapter 2 of Title…
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