Case Name: Ex parte EAGER
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1934-11-21
Citations: 79 S.W.2d 136
Docket Number: No. 17310
Parties: Ex parte EAGER.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 79
Pages: 136–139

Head Matter:
Ex parte EAGER.
No. 17310.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 21, 1934.
Respondent’s Rehearing Granted Jan. 23, 1935.
Relator’s Rehearing Denied Feb. 27, 1935.
Ray Marshall and A. S. West, both of San Antonio, for appellant.
Hertzberg & Kercheville, of San Antonio, and Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
CHRISTIAN, Judge.
This is an original application for a writ of habeas corpus by the relator seeking to be released from custody under a judgment for contempt.
[1] It appears from the record that the commitment was issued on a mere verbal order of the judge. A district judge has no authority to commit a person for contempt on a mere verbal order. It is necessary that the proceedings he reduced to writing and made a matter of record in the court. Ex parte Ray, 101 Tex. Cr. R. 432, 276 S. W. 709; Ex parte McCraw, 102 Tex. Cr. R. 105, 277 S. W. 699. See, also, 9 Tex. Jur. 632.
It is ordered that the relator be discharged.
PER CURIAM.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.