Horner v. Reed

BUTTS, Justice.

Relator, John E. Homer, seeks this Court to issue a writ of mandamus directing respondent, the Honorable Susan D. Reed, Judge of the 144th District Court of Bexar County, Texas, to rescind or modify conditions of probation which she imposed on relator.

Relator is the Mayor of the City of Sha-vano Park, Texas. He was charged by the Bexar County Grand Jury in a two-count indictment with violating TEX.ELEC. CODE ANN. § 251.015 (Vernon 1986), a class A misdemeanor, by using the City’s funds for political advertising in order to defeat a tax rollback measure. Relator pleaded nolo…