Ex Parte Battis
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Violation of city ordinance. Habeas corpus to be released from arrest for. Appeal from a judgment on a habeas corpus proceeding remanding relator to custody under arrest upon a complaint charging a violation of a city ordinance regulating the stoppage, etc., of hacks, etc.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Relator was arrested for an alleged violation of a city ordinance, and sued out a writ of habeas corpus before the district judge, who, after hearing the evidence, remanded the prisoner, and he prosecutes this appeal.
The complaint is as follows: “In the Name and by the Authority of the City of Fort Worth. In the City Court. Before the undersigned authority, this day personally appeared L. P. Moore, who, being duly sworn, upon oath deposes and says that on the 17th day of November, 1898, and before the filing of this complaint, one Charles Battis, within the corporate limits…
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