Ex parte Goldsmith

The town of Piggott passed an ordinance declaring that the owning, operating or maintaining a pool table within the limits of said town was a nuisance, and provided for penalties against any one violating its provisions. ■ Goldsmith was prosecuted under said ordinance, and fined several times in the mayor’s court, and he took appeals from so many of said fines as he was able to secure bondsmen to the circuit court. He petitioned the circuit court for a writ of certiorari, setting forth ■said ordinance and the prosecutions under it and the pending and threatened prosecutions, and alleged facts…