Special Assembly Interim Committee on Public Morals v. Southard

THE COURT.

A rehearing was granted in this matter in order that a reexamination of the law applicable thereto might be made in the light of further arguments advanced in the petition for rehearing. Such reexamination has convinced us that to announce a contrary conclusion would be in disregard of established law on the subject in this and other jurisdictions, and that we would not be justified in taking such a course. The power here sought to be exercised by a single house of the legislature has uniformly been denied whenever it has been questioned. The fact that interim committees have been…