Ex Parte Massey
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Prom Hays County. Original application for habeas corpus for release from a commitment under an information charging petitioner with a violation of an Act of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, page 379, laws of 1905, with reference to soliciting orders for the sale of intoxicating liquors, etc. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSOJST, Presiding Judge.
The last Legislature passed the following statute: “That if any person in any county, subdivision of a county, justice’s precinct, city or town, in this State, in which the sale of intoxicating liquors has been prohibited by law, shall solicit or receive an order therein for the sale or delivery of any intoxicating liquor in such county, subdivision of a county, justice’s precinct, city or town, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $300, and by confinement in the county jail for any period…
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