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EX PARTE HOLMES

No. 69890.

754 S.W.2d 676 (1988)

Ex parte John B. HOLMES, Jr.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

May 18, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Bridgwater, Ted Doebbler, Houston, for respondents.

John B. Holmes, Jr., Dist. Atty., Calvin A. Hartmann and J. Harvey Hudson, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, for applicant.

Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This proceeding involves an application for writ of habeas corpus invoking the original jurisdiction of this Court.1 The applicant, the District Attorney of Harris County, attacks an order of contempt entered against him in the 183rd District court for refusing to proceed in the prosecution of a criminal case. As punishment applicant was assessed three days in the county jail.

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