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.
1DissentDavidson, Judge
(dissenting.)—In dissenting I do not care to make a statement of the facts. While I am not agreeing fully as to the scope of the statement in the opinion by Judge Harper, yet so far as the dissenting- views that I express are concerned, I have not considered it very material as to whether the proffered immunity from punishment or prosecution on the part of the district attorney and the district judge relates only to this' particular homicide, or whether it includes all connected crimes, or alleged connected crimes. The proposition on which I base this dissent is, that it makes no difference…
2Cases cited44 opinions
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- Brown v. WalkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Ex Parte GarlandSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
- Ex Parte MilliganSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
- Ex Parte Bollman and SwartwoutSupreme Court of the United States · 1807
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