Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Houston

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 25, 1920No. 5734PublishedCited by 4 opinions

From Bexar County. Original habeas corpus proceedings asking release from arrest on contempt proceedings for violating a permanent writ of injunction, issued out of the District Court on a civil proceeding. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

MORROW, Judge.

In an injunction suit filed in the District Court, Thirty-seventh Judicial District, the relator in this case was enjoined from knowingly permitting to be used, aiding, abetting, or assisting, directly or indirectly, the use, operation, or conduct of certain premises described in the judgment as a bawdy or disorderly house, or being interested in the operation or keeping of same.

It appears that preliminary to granting the injunction, a jury was empanneled, and to this jury there was submitted the question whether the allegations of the plaintiff in the injunction suit had been…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Ex Parte McKayCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1917
  2. Ex Parte AllisonTexas Supreme Court · 1906
  3. Ex Parte RoperCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1910
  4. Couch v. Texas Pacific Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1906
  5. Ex Parte AldereteCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1918

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Ex parte ValdezCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2016
  2. Ex Parte WolfCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1930
  3. Ex Parte AlbrittonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1920
  4. Valdez, Justin ToddCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2016

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