Liberis v. Harper

Writ of error was allowed and taken to a final order in habeas corpus remanding the petitioner who had been arrested for violating a city ordinance mailing it unlawful to keep, operate or maintain “any billiard table, pool table or bowling alley for hire or public use in any building or place, or any lot fronting or abutting any portion of Palafox Street between Wright Street and Zarragossa Street” in the city of Pensacola, Florida. The plaintiff in error seeks to contest the validity of the ordinance.

A person held in custody under a sentence of a municipal court upon a conviction on a charge…