Ex parte McMurrough

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The relator makes direct application to this court for the writ of habeas corpus, seeking her release from the custody of the sheriff of Calhoun County. Relator was adjudged guilty of contempt by the District Court of Calhoun County on April 19, 1965, for refusal to answer questions propounded to her by the Grand Jury of said County. The repeated refusal was on the ground of self-incrimination.

She was fined $50 and committed to jail until such fine was paid and “until she purges herself by testifying as to what she knows before the Grand Jury.”

*3In Ex parte Richards, 109…