Green v. State

On February 19, 1932, B. A. Coe, the duly elected, qualified and acting county attorney of Hardin county, Tex., instituted this suit in the district court of I-Iaxdin county, Tex., for and on behalf of the state of Texas, against Willie Green, the petition alleging that the defendant, Willie Green, was maintaining certain premises known as “Willie Green’s Dance Hall,” describing the premises on which the hall was located, situated in said county and state, in such manner as to constitute a public nuisance.

The allegations made with reference to violations of the law which the relator, the…