Ex parte Stickney

This is a habeas corpus proceeding wherein Hon. Cullen F. Briggs, Judge of the 117th District Court of Nueces County, granted the writ; stayed the execution of the death sentence pronounced against the relator in a district court of Harris County, and ordered the relator brought from the death cell at Huntsville to Nueces County for a hearing. After hearing, writ was issued returnable before this Court.

Judge Briggs was in error in granting the petition for habeas corpus and in declining to set aside his order when it was shown that such petition had been presented to this Court and leave to…