Ex parte Ginnochio
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before Hon. W. D. Harris, County Judge. Appellant was convicted in the Justice Court for selling intoxicating liquors in the city of Port Worth between the hours of 4 o’clock p. m.
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Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before Hon. W. D. Harris, County Judge. Appellant was convicted in the Justice Court for selling intoxicating liquors in the city of Port Worth between the hours of 4 o’clock p. m. Sunday and 12 o’clock Sunday night, on said Sunday, the 26th day of July, 1891; and refusing to pay the fine imposed by said justice, was arrested on a copias pro fine; whereupon he sued out a writ of habeas corpus before the county judge, upon the ground that the justice’s judgment of conviction was void, because said justice had no jurisdiction over said…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
The above is the brief of the State, prepared for us by Hon. R. H. Harrison, our Assistant Attorney-General, and we adopt it as the opinion of the court in this case in so far as the law is therein stated, and in doing so will add some further observations bearing upon the questions involved.
Section 1, article 5, of the State Constitution ordains, that “the judicial power of this State shall be vested in one Supreme Court, in one Court of Appeals, in District Courts, in County and Commissioners Courts, in courts of justices of the peace, and in such other courts as may be…
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