Ex Parte Holman
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The evidence was that applicant was engaged in soliciting work for the Chicago Portrait Company, and had not paid the occupation tax prescribed by the statute of Texas, and had not obtained a license therefor.
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The evidence was that applicant was engaged in soliciting work for the Chicago Portrait Company, and had not paid the occupation tax prescribed by the statute of Texas, and had not obtained a license therefor. That the work and business for which he solicited consisted in the manufacture of large pictures of persons or families, which large pictures were made or copied from small portraits or photographs which were furnished by the customer, and said business was what is commonly known as enlarging pictures. That the business for which appellant was soliciting was not conducted in Grayson…
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
The relator, Holman (upon complaint), was arrested in Grayson County for soliciting orders for photographs, pictures, etc., without paying the license required by Art. 5049, New Rev. Civ. Stat., 1895. He applied to the County Judge of Grayson County for a writ of habeas corpus, and upon an order of that court was remanded to the custody of the officer, from which judgment he appeals to this court. The proof showed that he was operating this business as the agent of a corporation situated in the city of Chicago, Ill, and that said corporation had no place of business in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Brennan v. TitusvilleSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
3Cited by4 opinions
- Mullinnix v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1901
- Olan Mills, Inc. v. City of Cape GirardeauSupreme Court of Missouri · 1954
- Martinez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1983
- Talbutt v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898