In re Ah Pah
Nevada Supreme Court
Original proceeding. Application of Ah Pah for a writ of habeas corpus. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sweeney, C. J.:
The petitioner, Ah Pah, was convicted on the 26th day of May, 1911, in the justices’s court in Reno, Nevada, for keeping a house of ill-fame within 800 yards of a certain designated schoolhouse, situated in the city of Reno, and sentenced to pay a fine of $50, or, in the event he failed to pay said fine, to serve twenty-five days in the county jail. Failing to pay the fine, petitioner was arrested and taken into legal custody, and now seeks the aid of this court, through habeas corpus proceedings, to relieve him of the judgment, because, as maintained, the section…
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