Ex Parte George Malone.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Collin County. Tried below before Hon. M. G. Abebxatiiy, County Judge. Appellant was arrested on the 8th day of May, 1895, by the sheriff of Collin County, under an information which charged him with the violation of the local option law in said connty; and failing to give bond after his arrest, was placed in jail by the sheriff.
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Appeal from Collin County. Tried below before Hon. M. G. Abebxatiiy, County Judge. Appellant was arrested on the 8th day of May, 1895, by the sheriff of Collin County, under an information which charged him with the violation of the local option law in said connty; and failing to give bond after his arrest, was placed in jail by the sheriff. He sued out a writ of habeas corpus before the County Judge, for his release from custody, upon the ground that the local option law, under which he was being prosecuted, was absolutely null and void, because the pretended election, adopting the same, was…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
This is a proceeding on habeas corpus. The relator applied to the County Judge of Collin County for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that he was illegally restrained of his liberty by virtue of a charge preferred against him for violation of a local option law in a precinct in Collin County, claiming that the local option election in said subdivision was not in accordance with the local option law, and so is null and void. We find in the record what purports to be a statement of facts, but same is neither signed by the attorneys as an agreed statement of the facts, nor is…
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