EX PARTE JOSEPH

No. 34330.

356 S.W.2d 789 (1962)

Ex parte Carol Jean JOSEPH.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 28, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Foreman & Walsh, by William F. Walsh, Houston, for relator.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Jno N. Hughes, Assts. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for respondent.


WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding attacking the validity of the order of District Judge Arnold H. Krichamer holding the relator in contempt of court for refusing to testify, and ordering the relator to be confined in jail until she purged herself by agreeing to testify.

One Michael Said Coury was on trial before Judge Krichamer, in Criminal District Court No. 4 of Harris County, for the offense of pandering. The indictment...

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