Houston Chronicle Publishing Co. v. McMaster

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

These are two, formerly three,1 actions for extraordinary relief which we have consolidated for hearing and determination of *865whether to grant the relief they seek. While original in this Court they are in a sense ancillary to a proceeding pending in Cause No. 249,771 in the 179th Judicial District Court of Harris County, styled in the papers before us Ex parte Vernon Eugene McManus. The pending proceeding in that cause, initiated by two applications for writ of habeas corpus filed in the court below,2 is in turn related to a criminal case of the same number that has been…