Ex Parte Smelley

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the district judge upon a habeas corpus hearing refusing to release appellant from a contempt judgment. The judgment reads as follows :

“The Grand Jury in and for Nacogdoches County, Texas, having been duly impanelled and sworn as such and on the 11th day of September, A. D. 1929, a witness, Jewell Smelley, after having been duly sworn by the said Grand Jury and asked material questions concerning law violations in said county and first being promised immunity from all prosecution on his part, the following questions were propounded to the…