Lipscomb v. Flaherty

Mr.. Justice Wilson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a direct appeal from an order sustaining a plea in abatement filed in an action to enjoin the Clerk and Judges, of the San Antonio Police Courts from blacklisting him as a bondsman in the city jail under Art. 277, § 2, Code of Criminal Procedure. He seeks to have us declare this statute unconstitutional because, he alleges, Art. 277, § 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is a local or special law and takes private property without due process of law. ,•

Respondent city officials filed a plea in abatement founded upon res judicata. In a…