Ex Parte Day

LATTIMORE, Judge.

We are asked in a direct habeas corpus proceeding in this court to pass on the constitutionality, of a law and release the applicant from custody, upon an application most general in its terms, simply setting up that applicant is “Illegally restrained of his liberty by J. A. Woody, Constable, upon a complaint and warrant of arrest issued by a Justice of the Peace of Precinct No. 3, Travis County, Texas, a certified copy of which complaint and warrant of arrest are attached to the application.” The application is dated and sworn to on November 3, 1933, while the complaint upon…