Ex Parte Shirley

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This is an original petition for mandamus, the purpose of which is to require the respondent judge to expunge from an order dismissing the prosecution under an indictment charging the petitioner with a felony, that part of the order holding the petitioner for further indictment by the grand jury.

Briefly summarized the case made by the petition for the writ is the following:

The petitioner was put to trial upon an indictment, in several counts, alleging that he corruptly procured one Gayle Gene Holsomback on her examination as a witness on the trial of a criminal…