Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Burks v. Stovall
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided June 10, 1959No. 30802PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODLEY, Judge.
*208A penal ordinance of the City of Houston (Sec. 3-25 1958 Code of Ordinances as amended August 13, 1958) makes it unlawful for any person to keep, possess or maintain in the city limits any chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, peafowls or any other bird or fowl except parakeets, canaries or similar size birds, or any pens, enclosures or other structures in which any such fowls are kept or possessed within 100 feet of any actual residence or habitation of human beings, or within 100 feet of any church, school or hospital.
Excepted are owners or keepers of such fowls kept for sale or…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Smith v. WhitneySupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- State v. Ferguson KirbyTexas Supreme Court · 1939
- Kemp Hotel Operating Co. v. City of Wichita FallsTexas Commission of Appeals · 1943
- Malone v. City of HoustonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1955
- State Ex Relator McNamara v. ClarkCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1915
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3Cited by10 opinions
- State v. MoralesTexas Supreme Court · 1994
- Ellis v. DysonSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- City of Fort Worth v. CraikTexas Supreme Court · 1967
- Passel v. Fort Worth Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1968
- City of Houston v. AdamsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1959
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