Ex Parte Droby

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The above causes, both being petitions for writs of habeas corpus filed originally in this Court, present the same questions and will be disposed of in one opinion.

The petitioners are members of the State Bar of Texas who reside in Dallas County, the Petitioner Droby being President of the Dallas County Criminal Bar Association.

They seek relief from confinement under order of Hon. W. J. Oxford, Judge of the 29th Judicial District, entered in Cause No. 6011 in the District Court of Palo Pinto County in which Virgil Nelson Halford was charged with rape, and a prior…