Case Name: Ex Parte W. A. Albritton
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1920-06-02
Citations: 87 Tex. Crim. 453
Docket Number: No. 5165
Parties: Ex Parte W. A. Albritton.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 87
Pages: 453–453

Head Matter:
Ex Parte W. A. Albritton.
No. 5165.
Decided June 2, 1920.
Habeas Corpus—Civil Suit—Jurisdiction—Supreme Court.
Where relator was adjudged guilty of contempt in violating the order of the District Court in rendering judgment in a civil proceeding, the application for writ of habeas corpus should have been made to the Supreme Court of Texas. Following Ex parte Houston, 219 S. W. Rep., 826, and other cases.
From Harris County.
Original Habeas Corpus proceedings asking release from arrest under contempt procedings for violating orders in a civil suit.
The opinion states the case.
No brief on file for relator.
Alvin M. Owsley, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Judge.
This is an original application for writ of habeas corpus. Its disposition has been delayed upon request of counsel for both appellant and State, pending settlement by agreement of a civil suit out of which the injunction, upon the violation of which the contempt was founded, grew.
A restraining order was issued in this civil suit requiring the relator to refrain from cultivating certain cotton on his premises pending the disposition of the suit. He was adjudged in contempt of the District Court rendering the judgment, and from the restraint under the contempt procedings relief is sought. The relief will not be granted for the reason that the Supreme Court is by statute given authority to entertain applications for writs of habeas corpus in cases in which the restraint grows out of a civil ease. Revised Statutes, Art. 1529. In deference to this statute, and the reasons that impelled the Legislature to enact it as stated, in various decisions of this court, it has refrained from granting writs of habeas corpus in eases of contempt growdng out of the alleged disobedience of an order entered in a civil case. Ex parte Houston, 87 Texas Crim. Rep., 8, 219, S. W. Rep., 826; Ex parte Alderette, 83 Texas Crim. Rep., 358. 203 S. W. Rep., 764; Ex parte Gregory, 85 Texas Crim. Rep., 115; 210 S. W. Rep., 205.
Following this precedent, the application for writ of habeas corpus is ordered dismissed.
Dismissed.