Legal Opinion

In Re Gribben

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided February 12, 1897PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Original Proceeding in Habeas Corpus. Proceeding by petition for habeas corpus in which the petitioner represents that she is a member of a religious organization, known as the Salvation Army, and praying that she be released from imprisonment, in which she is held, under a warrant of arrest, issued by the police judge of the city of Oklahoma City, under authority of an ordinance of said city, which petitioner alleges to be void.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Taesnev, J.:

The petitioner, Carrie Gribben, was, on the fifth day of July, 1895, while engaged in religious work, as a member of a religious organization, known as the Salvation Army, and holding religious services on a public street of Oklahoma City, arrested by J. H. Boles, the respondent, as chief of police of said city, and taken into custody under a warrant issued by the police judge of said city, charging the petitioner with violating an ordinance of said city, by making a noise upon the streets of said city, by beating a drum therein, said noise…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Anderson v. City of WellingtonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1888

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Ex parte TiceOregon Supreme Court · 1897
  2. Mitchener v. City Com'rs, City of OkmulgeeSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1924
  3. Gant v. Oklahoma CitySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1931
  4. In Re UngerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1908
  5. Ex Parte WestellisonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1927

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