Ex Parte Farley

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Relator was arrested, charged by complaint with violating an ordinance of the town of Memphis, in Hall County, for keeping open his pool hall and running therein pool tables after 9 o’clock in the evening. He sought through writ of habeas corpus, relief from.arrest on the ground that the ordinance was void. The county judge, upon the hearing, decided the law against his contention.

The ordinance is supposed to be framed under article 431 of the Revised Civil Statutes. That article authorizes towns to “license, tax and regulate billiard tables, pin alleys, ball…