Ex Parte Jones

HAWKINS, Judge.

Relator was convicted in the Corporation Court of the City of Dallas for the offense of vagrancy, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $75.

He was sentenced to the municipal farm where he labored for twenty-seven days. At the expiration of this time he applied for release upon writ of habeas corpus upon the. ground that he was entitled to $3 per day for each day of such confinement and labor and that at such rate he was entitled to release. The relief sought was denied and from such order this appeal is taken.

In 1907 the Thirtieth Legislature, by special act, granted , a new…