Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Abell

Texas Supreme Court

Decided March 18, 1981No. B-9939Published

1Opinion of the Court

613 S.W.2d 255 (1981)

Ex parte John M. ABELL.

No. B-9939.

Supreme Court of Texas.

March 18, 1981.

Brown, Maroney, Rose, Baker & Barber, Wayne Prescott and Walter H. Mizell, Austin, for relator.

Kidd, Whitehurst & Harkness, William O. Whitehurst, Jr., Polly Durham, Suzanne Wood Brown, Austin, for respondent.

BARROW, Justice.

Relator, John M. Abell, seeks his release from the custody of the sheriff of Travis County by writ of habeas corpus. Abell has been remanded to the sheriff's custody by the judge of the 126th District Court of Travis County until he has responded to an interrogatory posed to him…

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2Cases cited69 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Roe v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  3. Paul v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  4. Griswold v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  5. United States v. CalandraSupreme Court of the United States · 1974

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