Ex parte Wren
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the decision of Hon. T. J. Wharton, Judge of the Ninth Judicial District, on habeas corpus. W. Y. Wren, a traveling salesman for Philip Laal, a dealer in groceries in the city of New Orleans, was exhibiting goods and soliciting and obtaining orders for like goods on behalf of Laal, in the city of Jackson, without having first obtained a license, in accordance with an act of the legislature approved March 18, 1886, entitled “ An act to amend §§ 557 and 585, Code…
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Appeal from the decision of Hon. T. J. Wharton, Judge of the Ninth Judicial District, on habeas corpus. W. Y. Wren, a traveling salesman for Philip Laal, a dealer in groceries in the city of New Orleans, was exhibiting goods and soliciting and obtaining orders for like goods on behalf of Laal, in the city of Jackson, without having first obtained a license, in accordance with an act of the legislature approved March 18, 1886, entitled “ An act to amend §§ 557 and 585, Code of 1880, so as to increase the public revenue, and provide for the faithful collection of the same.” The sheriff of Hinds…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The right of the sheriff of Hinds County to detain the petitioner depends upon the validity of “ An act to amend §§ 557 and 585, Code of 1880, so as to increase the public revenue, and provide for the faithful collection of the same,” approved March 18, 1886, and published by authority as a law. Its validity as a law is assailed on the ground that, while it was signed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives and by the governor, it is not to be accepted as a law, because by reference to the journals of the senate and house it appears that a bill with the…
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