In re Houston

This is an application for the writ of habeas corpus. The parties make separate applications; but, as the cases involve the same questions of law, and arise out of substantially the same state of facts, they will be considered together.

Petitioners were arrested and imprisoned under proceedings instituted against them in a justice’s court at the city of Nevada, Vernon county, in this state. The prosecution is predicated of an alleged violation of the state statute defining and regulating the rights and duties of peddlers. The charge is that the defendants were engaged in the act of peddling…