Ex Parte Testard

This writ was issued on the application of relator, Testard, complaining that he was restrained of his liberty by the sheriff of Bexar County by virtue of a commitment issued out of the District Court of that county upon a judgment thereof convicting relator of contempt of court in disobeying a writ of injunction previously- issued and served. It is unnecessary to cite authorities to the proposition that this court is restricted to the inquiry whether or not the commitment is void. Its nullity is asserted on several grounds, the first of which is that the writ of injunction, for disobedience…