Ex Parte Adlof
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
A complaint was filed in the Recorder ?s Court of the city of Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, on the 24th of April, 1917, charging relator with a violation of a city ordinance relating to the public cemetery.
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A complaint was filed in the Recorder ?s Court of the city of Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, on the 24th of April, 1917, charging relator with a violation of a city ordinance relating to the public cemetery. Relator was fined one dollar and thereupon appealed to the County Court of said county and was again fined one dollar in said County Court, and was thereafter arrested on a capias profine, and refusing to pay the fine was held in custody, and the judgment being one from which there was no appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals, relator filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus…
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Judge.
The governing body of the city of Sherman enacted an ordinance of which See. 3 is as follows:
“Thsit if any person whomsoever shall hereafter dig, attend, dress or keep any grave or burial lot in West Hill Cemetery in the City of Sherman for compensation, paid or to be paid, directly or indirectly, except under the direction and with the consent of the Superintendent of said Cemetery to be appointed as provided by this ordinance, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof .shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars. Provided, that…
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- Wyeth v. Board of Health of CambridgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Morris & Cummings v. State ex rel. GussettTexas Supreme Court · 1884
- Evergreen Cemetery Ass'n v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1875
- Houston Cemetery Co. v. DrewCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1896
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