Case Name: Ex parte BERRY
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1919-03-19
Citations: 210 S.W. 799
Docket Number: No. 5338
Parties: Ex parte BERRY.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 210
Pages: 799–799

Head Matter:
(85 Tex. Cr. R. 204)
Ex parte BERRY.
(No. 5338.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 19, 1919.
On Motion for Rehearing, April 16, 1919.)
Habeas Corpus <&wkey;85(3) — Application — Presumption in Favor op Regularity op Commitment.
Where there is nothing but the application for habeas corpus, which shows that defendant was placed in jail following an adjudication that he was in contempt of the district court for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury, the Court of Appeals is unable to decide upon what the judgment was rendered, and must dismiss the application upon the presumption that the commitment was regular, and was based upon proper facts.
Original application by J. W. Berry for writ of habeas corpus, which was granted, and the cause set for hearing.
Application disr missed, and relator remanded to custody of the sheriff.
Travis T. Thompson, of Clarksville, for appellant. •
E. A. Berry, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
On February 8, 1916, this relator presented an application for a writ of habeas corpus to the presiding judge of this court, which was granted, and the cause set down for February 19, 1919, on which date same appears to have been duly submitted. The record is before us without any statement of facts or agreement of counsel or any other manner by which this court may be guided in determining its decision of this case. It has been often held by this court that the contents of the application are but pleading, and that, if nothing further be presented, the application will be dismissed. See Ex parte Thomas, 65 Tex. Cr. R. 537, 145 S. W. 601; Ex parte Clark, 198 S. W. 954; Ex parte Robertson, 63 Tex. Cr. R. 280, 140 S. W. 98.
There being nothing before us except the application for this writ which alleges that applicant was placed in jail following an adjudication that he was in contempt of the district court of Red River county for refusing to answer certain questions before the grand jury of that county, we are unable to decide what the facts were upon which such judgment was rendered, and, the presumption being that proper facts were before the court and in favor of the regularity of the court's action, the application will be dismissed, and the relator will be remanded to the custody of the sheriff of Red River county.