City of Memphis v. State ex rel. Ryals
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelly County.— A. B. Pittman, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
Ryals, as relator, sued out a writ of habeas corpus to effect his release from the custody of the chief of police of the city of Memphis; he having been arrested for a violation of Acts 1915, c. 60. The circuit judge *86released the relator, holding that act void, because vio-lative of the constitutional provisions that inhibit arbitrary class legislation. Const. Tenn., art. 1, sec. 8, and article 11, sec. 8; fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
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