State of Texas Ex Rel. Will Wilson

Summary

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a writ of prohibition ordering District Judge Cullen W. Briggs to refrain from any further action to stay or otherwise interfere with the execution of Howard B. Stickney's death sentence, holding that the Court has unlimited original jurisdiction over habeas corpus matters and that such a prohibition does not suspend the writ of habeas corpus. The Court affirmed its authority to enforce its mandates against lower district judges.