Ex Parte Cannon

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Following conviction in the Corporation Court of the city of Texarkana, Texas, relator sued out a writ of habeas corpus attacking the validity of the ordinance under which conviction was had. Said ordinance is as follows:

“AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED ‘AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING MALE AND FEMALE PERSONS FROM ASSOCIATING TOGETHER FOR IMMORAL PURPOSES, DEFINING AND STATING WHAT SHALL CONSTITUTE ASSOCIATING TOGETHER FOR IMMORAL PURPOSES, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES, REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.’

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY…