Ex Parte Hughes
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
From Bexar County. Original application for habeas corpus for release and discharge from arrest, for a violation of a city ordinance prohibiting the issuance and sale of scalper’s tickets. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion
This case comes before us on the State's motion for rehearing. The case is stated in the original opinion, except the provision of the charter under which the ordinance was assumed to be based, is not given, and is, as follows:
"Sec. 96. To restrict the sale of tickets, passes, or other evidence of the right to travel on any railroad or street railway to duly authorized agents of the railroad or street railway company issuing or authorizing the issuance of the same, and to prohibit the sale of all tickets, passes or other evidence of the right to travel on any railroad or street railway by any…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- State v. ClarkeSupreme Court of Missouri · 1873
- State v. CorbettSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1894
- Village of St. Johnsbury v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1887
- State v. DeBarSupreme Court of Missouri · 1874
- State v. BinderSupreme Court of Missouri · 1866
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