Legal Opinion

Ex parte Townsend

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 16, 1940No. 21297Published

1Opinion of the Court

GRAVES, Judge.

Relator was held under a complaint filed in the city court of Dallas County, Texas, in which he was charged with a violation of a certain city ordinance, being No. 2691, which ordinance was concerned with the use, handling, storage, keeping, manufacture and transportation of flammable oils and hazardous materials, etc., in said city.

He sued out a writ of habeas corpus before a county judge *316of that county, and, upon a refusal to grant his discharge, he appealed to this court.

Relator raises but one question on this appeal, and that has to do with the hereinafter quoted portion of…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Lombardo v. City of DallasTexas Supreme Court · 1934
  2. Houston & T. C. Ry. Co. v. StevensonTexas Commission of Appeals · 1930
  3. State v. International & Great Northern Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1915
  4. State v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1913
  5. Ex Parte WilmothCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1933

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