Ex Parte Foster
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Harris County. Original application for habeas corpus for release from a commitment .for contempt for publishing, in a newspaper, the evidence in a murder case, in disobedience of the verbal order of the trial judge. . The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
This is an original proceeding on habeas corpus to enlarge the relator from a commitment of the district judge of the Criminal District Court of Harris County ón an alleged contempt, for publishing the evidence in the trial in said court of D. F. Williams et al., charged with murder, in the Chronicle, a daily newspaper published in the city of Houston.
The State, by her Assistant Attorney-General, has filed a motion to dismiss this case on the ground that the relator, when he sued out the writ of habeas corpus, and thereafter since that time, was not in. the legal custody or…
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