Ex Parte Cowden, Jr.

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted in the Justice Court for permitting stock to run at large in a portion of Matagorda County where it is alleged the stock law prohibiting horses, cattle, etc., from running at large had been adopted. He appealed the case to the County Court; was again tried and convicted, when he sued out a writ of habeas corpus before Hon. Samuel J. Styles, district judge. Hpon a hearing, Judge Styles remanded the relator to the custody of the sheriff, and from this latter order he prosecutes an appeal to this court.

Relator’s first contention is that the…