Ex Parte Bockhorn
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Relator was tried and convicted in the Justice Court under a complaint charging him with following the occupation and pursuing the business of selling sewing machines without first having paid an occupation tax. He resorted to a writ of habeas corpus before the county judge to test the constitutionality of the Act of the Legislature levying the tax. Upon a hearing the county judge remanded relator to custody. From that judgment this appeal is prosecuted.
The provision of the Act of the Legislature levying this tax is in the following language: “From every person,…
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