Ex Parte McRae
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Bexar County. Original application for habeas corpus directed to Hon. W. L. Davidson, presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and which was granted by him in vacation and made returnable before the court in October. Relator McRae was fined by Hon. J. L. Camp, judge of the Forty-fifth Judicial District Court, in the sum of $100, and was ordered confined in jail for contempt of court.
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From Bexar County. Original application for habeas corpus directed to Hon. W. L. Davidson, presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and which was granted by him in vacation and made returnable before the court in October. Relator McRae was fined by Hon. J. L. Camp, judge of the Forty-fifth Judicial District Court, in the sum of $100, and was ordered confined in jail for contempt of court. Relator sued out his writ of habeas corpus which was granted by Presiding Judge Davidson in vacation and made returnable at the next October term of the court where the same was heard and…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Hon. J. L. Camp, judge presiding of the Forty-fifth Judicial District, fined relator McRae $100 and ordered him to be confined in jail for three days, for contempt of court. Relator sued out a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted by Judge Davidson in vacation, and made returnable before the court in October. From the agreed statement of facts, it is made to appear that on the morning of June 23, 1903, the ease of Kraus v. San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad Company was called for trial in Judge Camp’s court, in the city of San Antonio; and the jury was impaneled about 11…
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