Ex Parte Muncy
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Floyd County. Original habeas corpus proceeding asking release from commitment to jail for contempt, in refusing to testify for the State. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
Relator was called as a witness before the grand jury of Floyd County, Texas, when said body was examining witnesses in regard to the killing of J. M. Muncy. The relator is a boy twelve years of age, and is the son of J. M. Muncy, deceased, and Mrs. Bertie Muncy, and on his testimony and the testimony of other witnesses Mrs. Bertie Muncy and Horace Peters were indicted charged with the murder of J. M. Muncy.
Mrs. Muncy and Horace Peters sued out a writ of habeas corpus, and on this hearing relator was offered as a witness by the State, and refused to testify on the ground that…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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- Interstate Commerce Commission v. BairdSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
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- Horbach v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1875
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