Ex Parte A.S. Shepherd

At the August term of the Harris county criminal court applicant was tried, charged with being in contempt of that court, and upon a hearing of the matter Hon. C. W. Robinson entered up an order holding that “the court is of the opinion that the defendant should be held in contempt of this court for unduly attempting to influence a juror in the manner and by the means alleged, who had been duly summoned, sworn, and impaneled as a juror for the week, in a manner that'would hinder the due administration of justice, and the administration of the laws of this state, and punished by a fine of $100…