Ex Parte Wright
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Coleman County. Original habeas corpus proceedings asking relief of relator from •arrest under a conviction of an ordinance for speeding which had been repealed by the Act of the Legislature. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
PRENDERGAST, Judge.
The relator was convicted in the Mayor’s. Court of Santa Anna, in Coleman County, for violating a speed ordinance of said town. He appealed to the County Court, and was on July 3, 1917, again convicted and fined $5. He refused to pay the fine and was then taken in charge by the sheriff of said county, holding him under said conviction until he paid the fine and costs. He thereupon applied to this court for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted and the cause regularly submitted in this court.
By the Act of 1907, page 192 (art. 815, P. C.), it was made an offense for…
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