Wickstrum v. Hunger

•. Appellant was arrested and convicted of the violation of a city • ordinance providing that “it shall he unlawful for any person operating a motorcycle to carry another person on said machine in front of the operator.” This provision is embraced within a general ordinance regulating the use of motor vehicles in the city of Lincoln. Having failed to pay the fine and costs adjudged against him, he was committed to jail. He applied to the district court for release upon a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that the ordinance was unreasonable and void, and from a denial of the writ he has…