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EX PARTE WOOD

No. 8182.

494 S.W.2d 264 (1973)

Ex parte Robert J. WOOD, Relator.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

April 17, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Errol Friedman, Harkness, Friedman & Kusin, Texarkana, for relator.

John C. Hawkins, Jr., Raffaelli & Hawkins, Texarkana, for respondent Earl Sabo, Sheriff and intervenor.

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

This is a habeas corpus case authorized by Vernon's Tex.Rev.Civ.Stats.Anno. art. 1824a, filed as an original proceeding in this court.* The case is dismissed.

The record on file shows the contempt proceeding instituted in the trial court is civil in nature; that the contempt judgment prayed for and granted is remedial and coercive. Civil contempt, as tersely defined in Corpus Juris Secundum, "consists in...

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