Ex Parte Roper
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Johnson County. Original habeas corpus proceeding asking release from custody under a judgment of contempt by the District Court for violating a writ of injunction restraining the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors in local option territory. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
—On October 29th of this year an application for writ of habeas corpus was presented to Judge McCord of this court, was by him granted, and the case set down for submission before the full bench on November 9th of the present year.
The application is based on a number of grounds, all of which will be hereafter noticed. It appears in the record that about the 17th day of December, 1909, the county attorney of Johnson County made application to Hon. O. L. Lockett, judge of the Eighteenth Judicial District, alleging in substance that Ward Roper and R. B. Roper, who are alleged to be…
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