Ex parte Mode
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
John Mode was arrested on a complaint charging him with running a pool hall after an election in a county, precinct, etc., had been legally held and pool halls had been prohibited under the provisions of an option statute, and he sues out an original writ of habeas corpus.
1Opinion of the CourtHarper, J.
The sole question involved in this case is the constitutionality of what is known as the “pool hall law,” being chapter 74 of the Acts of the Thirty-Third Legislature. The law provides for a petition to the commissioners’ court, and the court is required by the law to order the election when the petition is signed by the requisite number of voters. The law provides how the election shall be held, and how the result shall be declared. In fact, the law, as passed by the Legislature, is minute in all its details, and provides for everything that is necessary to be done and is mandatory in its…
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