Legal Opinion

Ex parte Brady

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided April 19, 1902PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Certiorari to Craighead Circuit Court. Felix G. Taylor, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. At the September term of the Craighead circuit court for 1899, there were pending against R. C. Brady twenty separate cases on indictment for selling liquor without license.

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Certiorari to Craighead Circuit Court. Felix G. Taylor, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. At the September term of the Craighead circuit court for 1899, there were pending against R. C. Brady twenty separate cases on indictment for selling liquor without license. He was tried and convicted on seven of these indictments, and fines were imposed amounting to $1,900. He thereupon entered a plea of guilty to each of the remaining thirteen indictments, and those cases were continued until the next term, when judgments were also entered upon them, amounting in the aggregate to $1,300. Afterwards Brady…

1Opinion of the Court

Riddick, J.,

(after stating the facts.) This is a proceeding to review the findings and orders of the judge of the circuit court denying the petition of R. C. Brady asking to be released from further custody and remanding him to the custody of the sheriff of Craighead county.

Brady was convicted on several different indictments for selling liquor without license. He was pardoned, and the fines against him remitted, on condition that he leave the state and not return. He returned to the state, and was again pardoned on condition that he would not again sell liquor without license, but in a short…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Ex parte SwannSupreme Court of Missouri · 1888
  2. State v. HodgsonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1893

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. People v. ElliottIllinois Supreme Court · 1916
  2. Sustar v. County CourtOregon Supreme Court · 1921
  3. Ex parte LuceroNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1917
  4. Hinton v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1976
  5. Williams, Standridge & Deaton v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1958

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