Ex Parte Mayes
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Original application of Henry Mayes for writ of habeas corpus.
1Opinion of the Court
SHARP, O. J.
In the month of February, 1917, the petitioner was tried and convicted in the police court oY the city of Pawhuska for the violation of an ordinance of said city providing for the levy and payment of a license tax of $25 per annum for each automobile operated for hire in said city. The power of the city to enact the ordinance under which petitioner was convicted and imprisoned is assailed upon numerous grounds, but one of which need receive our consideration. ' The ordinance under which the city acted and its chief of police here justifies his custody of the petitioner provides:
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