Ex Parte Thompkins
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The Commissioners Court of Panola County ordered an election upon the petition of twenty freeholders under article 4978, chapter 5, Revised Civil Statutes, in a subdivision of said county described by metes and bounds whether hogs, sheep and goats should be permitted to run at large in such subdivision, to be held September 20, A. D. 1902. Said election was duly held and the said stock law adopted.
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The Commissioners Court of Panola County ordered an election upon the petition of twenty freeholders under article 4978, chapter 5, Revised Civil Statutes, in a subdivision of said county described by metes and bounds whether hogs, sheep and goats should be permitted to run at large in such subdivision, to be held September 20, A. D. 1902. Said election was duly held and the said stock law adopted. Relator was afterwards charged with a violation of said stock law, and arrested and thereupon sued out habeas corpus proceedings before the county judge of Panola County. Relator in his petition…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Relator in a habeas corpus proceeding in the court below was remanded to custody, and appeals. The record shows that relator is restrained of his liberty, on an alleged violation of the stock law, in a certain subdivision of Panola County, which is set out in the complaint by metes and bounds. It is conceded in the record that, if the stock law in said territory so described, was constitutionally passed, that he is guilty of the offense charged in the complaint. It is contended by relator that this is not one of the known political subdivisions of Panola County; and that…
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