Ex parte Puente

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The above cases have been consolidated.

On June 11,1958, applications for writ of habeas corpus were presented to the Presiding Judge of this court alleging that petitioners were illegally restrained of their liberty by virtue of an order issued out of the 49th‘ District Court of Webb County, holding them in contempt. By order dated 3:30 P.M., June 11, the said judge set a hearing for June 18, 1958, to determine whether the clerk of this court should issue the writ, and, pending such hearing, the sheriff of Webb County was directed to release petitioners upon their…