Harris County v. Crooker

In the view we take of the case it is not necessary to determine whether Act March 13, 1911, referred to in the statement above, was a local or special law, within the meaning of section 56 of article 3 of the Constitution, so far as it undertook to fix the compensation of the officer therein designated as "The criminal district attorney of Harris county"; for if it was such a law in that respect, it was not for that reason alone invalid. To have been within the inhibition in said section of the Constitution, the act in the respect stated must not only have been a local or special one, but it…