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STATE v. BRIGGS

No. 34250.

351 S.W.2d 892 (1961)

STATE of Texas ex rel. Will WILSON, Attorney General of Texas, Frank Briscoe, District Attorney, Harris County, Texas, Samuel H. Robertson, Jr. and Neil McKay, Assistant District Attorneys, Harris County, Texas, Relators, v. Judge Cullen W. BRIGGS, District Judge, 117th Judicial District Court, Nueces County, Texas, Respondent.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 29, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Percy Foreman, Houston, for relator.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Neil McKay, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., of Texas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

This is an action seeking the issuance of Writ of Prohibition against the Respondent Cullen W. Briggs, Judge of the 117th Judicial District Court of Nueces County, Texas.

On January 29, 1959, Howard B. Stickney was convicted in Harris County, Texas, of murder and his punishment was assessed at death. The conviction was affirmed by this Court. Stickney v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 336 S.W.2d 133, certiorari...

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