Ex Parte Emmons

I believe that the majority orders the wrong person to be punished for what has happened in this cause. To “abuse” Johnny Haywood Emmons, applicant, will be doing a useless act. If anyone should be punished, it is Johnny J.E. Meadows, a person whom I do not know. The record, however, informs me that Meadows is the person who prepared the application for writ of habeas corpus that Emmons signed, swore to,* and filed in this cause. The record also reflects that Meadows, who is in the penitentiary, holds himself out to other inmates as being “a writ writer.”

The record completely demonstrates…