Ex Parte Lingenfelter
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From McClennan County. Original habeas corpus proceeding, asking release from a commitment issued out of the Corporation Court of the city of Waco, on a conviction of violating the Sunday law, assessing a fine of $20. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
Relator was prosecuted under the following complaint in the Corporation Court of the city of Waco, to wit: “Personally appeared before the undersigned authority, J. P. Moore, who on oath, says that W. M. Lingenfelter, in the city of Waco, in said State of Texas, on or about the 16th day of April, A. D., 1911, who was then and there the "proprietor, agent and emploj'e, of a place of public amusement, to wit: what is commonly known as a picture show, the same being in the nature of a theater where motion pictures are displayed, did then and there unlawfully and willfully open and…
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