Ex Parte Bowen

HENDERSON, Judge.

The appellant was arrested by virtue of a warrant issued by the recorder of the city of McKinney to the marshal of said city, on a complaint charging him (said relator) with the violation of an ordinance of said city requiring all able-bodied male inhabitants of said city over the age of 18 years, except ministers of the gospel, to work the streets of said city, or in the alternative to pay $1 per day or furnish a substitute, under certain regulations prescribed, in said ordinance. For his arrest by the marshal, he sued out a writ of habeas corpus, and was brought before the…