Ex Parte Andrews

Habeas Corpus. Petitioner was arrested on a charge that he had violated an ordinance of the city of Springfield, and is now constructively in the custody of the chief of police of that City, where he is held pending a trial. The ordinance he is charged with having violated, so far as pertinent, is as follows:

“Sec. 1. No .person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of transporting passengers for hire within the Emits of Springfield, Missouri, without first obtaining from said city a license to carry on and engage in said occupation, for which license a charge shall be made as…