Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Flournoy
Texas Supreme Court
Decided April 9, 1958No. A-6755PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Per curiam
On March 19 Dayl Jean Flournoy filed in this court an application for writ of habeas corpus to obtain release from imprisonment in the Bexar County jail. Because of the length of the relator’s imprisonment and his repeated unsuccessful efforts in this and other courts to obtain release we set the application for formal oral argument in the courtroom on April 2.
Relator’s imprisonment is by virtue of an order of the District Court of the 73rd Judicial District, Bexar County, holding him in contempt of an order of the court and directing that he be committed to the Bexar County jail until he…
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3Cited by13 opinions
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