Alden v. State

The appellant was arrested upon a warrant issued by a justice of the peace on a complaint charging appellant with an offense of wilfully, maliciously and unlawfully conducting and carrying on a moving picture show at Globe, in violation of the published rules and regulations of the local board of health, then in force to prevent the spread of Spanish influenza, a dangerous, contagious or infectious disease then raging in epidemic form in the city of Globe and Gila county.

The prisoner filed his petition in the superior court of Gila county, praying for a writ of habeas corpus, upon the grounds…