Ex Parte Bennett
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Bowie County. Original habeas corpus proceedings, asking release from arrest under a judgment of the Corporation Court of the City of Texarkana, imposing a fine of ten dollars for a violation of the State Vagrancy law. The relator was fined for a violation of the State Vagrancy law in the Corporation Court of the City of Texarkana, Texas, on July 18, 1917, in the sum of ten dollars and costs.
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From Bowie County. Original habeas corpus proceedings, asking release from arrest under a judgment of the Corporation Court of the City of Texarkana, imposing a fine of ten dollars for a violation of the State Vagrancy law. The relator was fined for a violation of the State Vagrancy law in the Corporation Court of the City of Texarkana, Texas, on July 18, 1917, in the sum of ten dollars and costs. She thereupon appealed to the County -Court of Bowie County, Texas, which latter court dismissed her appeal for want of jurisdiction, because the fine, imposed did not exceed the sum of twenty-five…
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
In 1907, by special Act of the Legislature, a city charter was granted to the city of Texarkana, Texas. Section 131 of said Act defines the powers and duties of the Corporation Court of said city, which was given concurrent jurisdiction with both Justice and County Courts in criminal cases arising under State laws within the territorial limits of said city; said section contains the following: “And the jurisdiction of the County Court of Bowie County, Texas, shall be, and is hereby conformed to the changes hereby made. ’ ’ This section of said Act does not seem to have been…
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