HOUSTON CHRONICLE PUB. CO. v. McMASTER

No. 64751.

598 S.W.2d 864 (1980)

HOUSTON CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY and Nene Foxhall, and The Houston Post Company, Channel Two Television Company, and KPRC Radio Company, Petitioners, v. Honorable I. D. McMASTER, Judge, 179th Judicial District Court, Harris County.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

May 14, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Robert Brown and Charles H. Waters, Jr., Houston, for Houston Chronicle Pub. Co. & Nene Foxhall.

James E. Crowther, Charles B. Holm and Richard A. Sheehy, Houston, for The Houston Post Co., Channel Two Television Co. & KPRC Radio Co.

Mark Vela and Stanley G. Schneider, Houston, for McManus.

Donald W. Rogers, Jr., Houston, for respondent.

Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

These are two, formerly three,1 actions for extraordinary relief which we have consolidated for hearing and determination of whether to grant the relief they seek. While original in this Court they are in a sense ancillary to a proceeding pending in Cause No. 249,771 in the 179th Judicial District Court of Harris County, styled in the papers before us Ex parte...

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