24 SW2D 813 - Ex parte Depew

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Curtis v. Gibbs (1974), Lancaster v. Lancaster (1956)

31 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

LEDDY, J.

¶1Relator was adjudged guilty of contempt by the Eiftv-Third district court of Travis county for the violation of a temporary injunction issued by the criminal district court of Travis county, now the Ninety-Eighth judicial district.

¶2Under the authority of Ex parte Gonzalez, 111 Tex. 399, 238 S. W. 635, one court in no ease is authorized to punish contempt in another court; hence the proceedings by which relator was adjudged guilty of contempt are void, and he is entitled, under the writ of habeas corpus sued out, to be released from custody.

¶3We recommend he be ordered discharged.

OURETON, C. J. The relator is discharged, as recommended by the Commission of Appeals.