Ex Parte West
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Newton County. Original habeas corpus proceeding asking release from a judgment of eontemjit entered against relator for publishing defamatory matter concerning the official conduct of a district judge about a case pending in his court, and inflicting a fine of $100 and three days confinement in the county jail. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
COBB, Special Judge.
Petitioner having been adjudged guilty of contempt in a proceeding before the Hon. W. B. Powell, Judge of the First Judicial District, and restrained of his liberty by virtue of orders of commitment issued by him, has filed here his application to be discharged upon the grounds that the district judge had no jurisdiction, being disqualified to act in the matter, out of which the contempt proceedings arose, and that the facts found in and by the judgment do not in law constitute or amount to contempt, with the further reason that the information filed against him charges…
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