Ex Parte Brooks
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Harris County. Original habeas corpus proceedings, asking release from detention by the city health officers at the city farm for venereal diseases.
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
This is an original application for writ of habeas corpus sued out by the relator, Grace Brooks, who is detained by Searcy Baker, Chief of Police at Houston, by reason of an order issued by John M. Holt, U. S. P. H. S., Director of Sanitation and chief health officer of said City of Houston, which order directs that the relator be confined at the City Farm until discharged by said heath officer. A copy of said order is attached to the application and it is substantially stated therein that relator has been examined and is infected with syphilis and is ordered into quarantine…
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