State v. Coleman

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

Pursuant to the provisions of Tex.Code Crim.P.Ann. art. 44.01(a)(1) (Vernon Supp. 1988), the State of Texas appeals from the order of the county criminal court at law quashing the information that charged ap-pellee, Mary Lanier Coleman, with the violation of the City of Houston’s ordinance regulating sexually oriented businesses. Houston, Tex., Code § 28-122 (1986) (“the ordinance”).

The City of Houston’s municipal courts are courts of record, Tex.Gov’t Code Ann. § 30.262-.278 (Vernon Pamp.1988), and would generally have exclusive original jurisdiction over matters…