Brady v. Fry

KEITH, Justice.

The appeal is from a final judgment which ordered the issuance of a “preemp-tory [sic] writ of mandamus” involving a criminal case then and now pending in the Municipal Court of the City of Austin.

A complaint was filed in such court charging appellee with the offense of prostitution. Appellee filed several pre-trial motions in such court — of which appellant is judge — but the only motion involved in this case is that relating to entrapment. Appellee alleged that if any illegal act in fact had been committed, it occurred as a result of entrapment by the State’s principal…