Ex Parte Collins

HARPER, Judge.

Relator was indicted by the grand jury, charged with unlawfully carrying a pistol.1 He was arrested and entered a plea of guilty, and was fined $100 at a special term of the County Court, called by the county judge.

He was placed on the public roads and put to work, when he sued out a writ of habeas corpus asking that he lie discharged, -on the ground that he had been convicted at a term of court unauthorized by law. The county judge granted the writ, and upon hearing the cause it was proven that the Commissioners Court of Shelby County, by order entered to that effect, had…