Ex Parte Mussett
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Tarrant County. Original application for writ of habeas corpus, asking a release from commitment for contempt for violating an injunction issued from the District Court restraining relator from exhibiting moving pictures on Sunday for pay.
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
This is an original application for habeas corpus and is a companion case to that of Ex parte Andrew Zuccaro, this day decided. In that case the facts are so fully stated we do not deem it necessary to detail them here. It will be sufficient to state that on January 27, 1912, the county attorney brought suit to enjoin certain theaters and moving picture shows from opening and showing on Sunday; that the district judge to whom same was presented, Hon. W. T. Simmons, Judge of the Sixty-seventh District, deemed the allegations in the petition sufficient and entered the following…
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