Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Aldridge
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided November 18, 1959No. 31189PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
After notice and hearing, relator was adjudged to be in contempt of the 70th Judicial District Court of Ector County, which court will be referred to hereinafter as the district court.
No appeal lies from such decree. Relator applied to this court for the writ of habeas corpus, in order to test the validity of that judgment and of his arrest and incarceration thereunder.
*396Inasmuch as the contempt proceeding grew out of a criminal case, we granted the writ and made it returnable to this court.
On June 22, 1959, the case of the State of Texas v. T. M. Shirley, wherein the defendant…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Bridges v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Craig v. HarneySupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Pennekamp v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Ex parte CraigCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1946
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- In Re BellTexas Special Court of Review · 1995
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