Ex Parte Jones
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appellant, J. F. Jones, was arrested by S. P. Clark, sheriff of Tarrant County, Texas, on the 7th day of October, 1897, on a capias issued out of the County Court of said county, based upon a complaint and information filed in said court on said date charging relator with the offense of pursuing the occupation of a peddler with two horses in said county after the 20th day of September, 1897, without having paid his occupation tax as such peddler.
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Appellant, J. F. Jones, was arrested by S. P. Clark, sheriff of Tarrant County, Texas, on the 7th day of October, 1897, on a capias issued out of the County Court of said county, based upon a complaint and information filed in said court on said date charging relator with the offense of pursuing the occupation of a peddler with two horses in said county after the 20th day of September, 1897, without having paid his occupation tax as such peddler. He applied for and obtained a writ of habeas corpus on said day from the Hon. George W. Armstrong, judge of said county court, returnable on the 8th…
1Opinion of the Court
HEHDERSOH, Judge.
Applicant was arrested on an information based on a complaint filed in the County Court of Tarrant County, charging-him with pursuing the occupation of a peddler with two horses without first having paid the occupation tax due thereon. The criminal proceeding was under article 5049, subdivision 21, of the Act of the Twenty-fifth Legislature. See Laws 25th Leg., Sp. Sess., p. 49. Applicant sued out a writ of habeas corpus before the county judge. The case was tried before him and relator remanded; and from this action of said County Court he prosecutes this appeal.
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