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HOUSTON CHRONICLE PUB. CO. v. SHAVER

No. 68904.

630 S.W.2d 927 (1982)

HOUSTON CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY and Jim B. Barlow and the Houston Post Company, Relators, v. Douglas SHAVER, Judge, Respondent.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

March 17, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Waters, Jr., Houston, for Chronicle.

James E. Crowther, Richard A. Sheehy, Houston, for Post.

John B. Holmes, Jr., Dist. Atty., Winston E. Cochran, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for respondent.

Before the court en banc.

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

In this extraordinary proceeding the original jurisdiction of the Court under Article V, § 5 of the Constitution of the State of Texas is again invoked for resolution of another recurring confrontation between "Fair Trial" and "Free Press." Pressed upon us are vestiges of the common law and principles of federal and state constitutional provisions that we did not address in Houston...

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