Ex Parte Sanchez

MORROW, Judge.

Relators have made application for a writ of habeas corpus to this court charging in substance that they were adjudged guilty of contempt of court for refusal to answer questions propounded to them by the grand jury of Dallas County. In their sworn petition they make the following statement:

“Tour petitioners show that they were arrested without warrant on the 15th day of May, 1919, and placed in jail at Dallas County. That thereafter, on the morning of the 16th day of May, 1919, while under arrest, they were carried before the Grand Jury of Dallas County and sworn as witnesses.…