Ex Parte Dillard

RAY, Justice.

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding. Relator, Ivan Carroll Dillard, filed his motion with this Court for leave to file his original application for writ of habeas corpus and the motion was granted. Without granting a conditional writ of habeas corpus and admitting relator to bail, we proceeded to hear the matter on its merits and have concluded that the application should be refused.

The only available procedure for review of contempt orders and judgments is an original application for a writ of habeas corpus. Wagner v. Warnasch, 156 Tex. 334, 295 S.W.2d 890 (1956). There…