Legal Opinion
Ratcliff v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided October 6, 1926No. 8606PublishedCited by 15 opinions
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Conviction in District Court of Potter County of a violation of what is known as the Open Port Law, with punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.
The Fourth Called Session of the Thirty-sixth Legislature enacted the Open Port Law, which comprises Chapter Ten of the 1925 P. C. Its design evidently was to prevent such interference, of the kind designated, with employes of the common carriers as would injuriously affect the movement of commerce. It is charged in the indictment in this case that appellant made an assault on one Mullens, who was employed by a named railway…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Hayes v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Southern Railway Co. v. GreeneSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Marchant v. Pennsylyania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- German Alliance Insurance v. HaleSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
3Cited by15 opinions
- State v. EvansIdaho Supreme Court · 1952
- Memet v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1982
- State v. CoppesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1956
- Henry Taylor v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
- Ex parte FryeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1941
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