Ex Parte R.C. Botts

HARPER, Judge.

The application for habeas corpus addressed to Hon. J. W. Holmes, County Judge of Gonzales County, shows that relator was prosecuted for violating an ordinance of the City of Gonzales, which restricted the keeping of hogs in said city to certain limits, describing by metes and bounds the limits in which hogs could not be kept. In the statement of facts it is agreed the territory embraced in the ordinance and in which hogs were not permitted to he kept “covers about one-half of the corporate limits of said City of Gonzales, and includes the business section and most heavily…