Ex Parte Tom Cain
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Erom Wichita County. Original application for writ of habeas corpus for release from commitment under an arrest for a violation of a city ordinance, establishing fire limits and prescribing character of building, etc. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
E AH SET, Judge.—Appellant
presents his application for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging in substance that he is illegally restrained of his liberty and confined by the city marshal of the city of Wichita Falls, and that he is so restrained by virtue of a certain warrant of arrest issued upon a complaint charging him with the violation of a certain city ordinance of the city of Wichita Falls, attached to his application. It is alleged that this ordinance is unconstitutional and void, and that he ought not to be restrained of his liberty by reason of any alleged violation of the same. Attached…
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