Monroe Greyhound Ass'n v. Quigley

This injunction must be vacated because power to continue it does not rest with the court.

It is a general rule that injunction will not issue to stay criminal or quasi criminal proceedings, whether the prosecution is for the violation of a statute or an ordinance. Even though complainants were indicted under a void statute, a court of equity could not interfere, this extraordinary relief by injunction against the prosecution of a crime being only available where there is no other remedy and the courts holding that trial by jury, habeas corpus, motion and plea are abundant safeguards in such…