Ex Parte Long
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Titus. Original habeas corpus proceeding asking release from imprisonment for contempt of court in not answering questions as a witness; penalty, a fine of $100 and three days confinement in the county jail. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.
In vacation Long applied to one of the judges of this court for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that he was illegally restrained of his liberty in that, in substance, the court required him, as a witness in the trial of a felony case against another, to answer certain questions yes or no, when he claimed that he did not remember and could not so answer. The application was granted and the cause set down for hearing by the court on the 6th inst. The sheriff who had custody of Long when the writ was granted duly made his return thereon showing that he held him in…
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