Ex parte Patterson

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order in a habeas corpus proceeding wherein after hearing, the Honorable Mace B. Thurman, Jr., Judge of the 147th District Court, refused to discharge appellant finding that there is a valid law in effect under which he was charged. The appellant has not been convicted but has been charged by indictment for unlawfully possessing a dangerous drug, to-wit: lysergic diethylamide acid (LSD), on or about the 3rd day of July, 1971.

It is contended by appellant that he is restrained of his freedom unconstitutionally in that there is no valid statute…