Ex Parte Flake
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Johnson County. Original habeas corpus proceeding asking relief from arrest on an indictment charging the defendant with unlawfully pursuing' the business of keeping, maintaining and operating a cold storage where intoxicating liquors were kept, etc., in local option territory. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
—Relator was indicted by the grand jury of Johnson County, charged with the offense of unlawfully pursuing the business of keeping, maintaining and operating what is commonly known as a cold storage, where intoxicating liquors were kept on deposit for others, in a county in which the sale of intoxicating liquors had been prohibited. Upon being arrested, he sued out a writ of habeas corpus, in his application contending that the law under which he was indicted was unconstitutional and ’void on the several grounds alleged in his application, each of which we will discuss hereafter.
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