Ex parte McCuistian

KRUEGER, Judge.

The record before us shows that on the 8th day of October, A. D. 1936, the sheriff of Brown County by virtue of a capias pro fine arrested relator and confined him in the county jail. He applied to the Hon. A. E. Nabors, judge of the county court of said county, for a writ of habeas corpus and prayed that upon a hearing thereof he be discharged from custody. The writ was issued as prayed for. In obedience to said writ the sheriff produced relator at the time and place specified and stated that he had relator in custody and restrained him of his liberty by virtue of a capias pro…