Ex Parte Jacobson
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Dallas County. Original application for habeas corpus for release from a commitment under a complaint and information upon capias issued thereunder charging relator with the offense of participating in an unlawful assembly.
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From Dallas County. Original application for habeas corpus for release from a commitment under a complaint and information upon capias issued thereunder charging relator with the offense of participating in an unlawful assembly. Among other things the relator alleged in substance in her petition that she is an actress; that she sings in theaters, and that to compel her to remain in the city of Dallas, Texas, to answer a complaint and information upon the above charge would be a great inconvenience and injustice to her, for the reason that she is under contract with a company to play in…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Applicant was arrested charged with being guilty of an unlawful assembly. The complaint and information allege that T. P. Finnegan, Lee Muckenfuss, Sol Block, Harry Sanders, Lewis Snyder, Nathan Florer, one Somers, one Starke, one Askeland, Clemenso Brothers, Eva Jacobson, one Dickinson, one Delmar and one Darrell did then and there unlawfully assemble and meet together with the intent and purpose to aid each other by selling tickets and by ushering and by acting and by singing, and bjr stage carpentering, and by scene shifting, and by dancing, and by receiving…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ex Parte MuckenfussCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1908
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