Ex parte Vaughan

By way of original application for writ of habeas corpus, relator calls in question the validity of his conviction for violation of an ordinance of the city of Dallas.

The complaint charges, in appropriate language, that he was the proprietor of a meat market and worked therein for more than five days “withoht a certificate from some reputable physician of the city of Dallas attesting that the bearer had been examined at any time within the last six months before the filing of this complaint and had been found free from infectious and contagious diseases.”

Many grounds are specified in the…