Legal Opinion · Dissent
Ex Parte Meyer
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided October 23, 1918No. 5121Published
From Bexar County. Original habeas corpus proceeding, asking release from arrest under a warrant for a violation of selling intoxicating liquors, under section 2, ' Act of the Thirty-fifth Legislature, known as the State-wide prohibition law. The opinion states the case.
1Dissent
Section 20, article 16, of the 1876 Constitution was:
"The Legislature shall, at its first session, enact a law whereby the qualified voters of any county, justice's precinct, town or city, by a majority vote, from time to time, may determine whether the sale of intoxicating liquors shall be prohibited within the prescribed limits."
The 1891 amendment merely added these words in parenthesis: "(or such subdivisions of a county as may be designated by the Commissioners Court of said county)," after the word city.
In his original opinion Judge Morrow says the question of whether this section…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Harris County v. StewartTexas Supreme Court · 1897
- Imperial Irrigation Co. v. JayneTexas Supreme Court · 1911
- Higgins v. BordagesTexas Supreme Court · 1895
- Lytle v. HalffCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1889
- State v. SwisherTexas Supreme Court · 1856
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