Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Massey

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 6, 1905No. 3164Published

Prom Hays County. Original application for habeas corpus for release from a commitment under an information charging petitioner with a violation of an Act of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, page 379, laws of 1905, with reference to soliciting orders for the sale of intoxicating liquors, etc. The opinion states the case.

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on rehearing.

March 14, 1906.

HEEDERSOE, Judge.

The applicant was ordered discharged at the Tyler Term, and is now before us on motion for rehearing filed by the State. In connection with the motion respondent has filed an able brief, in which the propositions announced by the court in the original opinion are strenuously attacked; and it is urged that in consonance with correct legal principle, and the authorities bearing on the question, a rehearing should be granted and applicant remanded.

As we understand the act of the Twenty-Einth Legislature (Laws 1905, page 379), it prohibits the…

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