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Ex Parte Murphy

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
May 10, 1922
240 S.W. 1118 (Tex. Crim. App. 1922)

Opinion

No. 6000.

Decided May 10, 1922.

Habeas Corpus — City Ordinance — Agreement.

Where it appeared in this court by the terms of an agreement, filed in this case, that said city ordinance upon which defendant was held had been repealed or materially changed, relator is discharged.

Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before the Honorable C.A. Pippen.

Appeal from a habeas corpus proceeding; in which defendant asks release from conviction under a violation of a city ordinance, under a conviction in the Corporation Court of the City of Dallas.

The opinion states the case.

Jas. J. Collins, and Carl B. Calloway, for appellant.

R.G. Storey, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.


This is an attack by habeas corpus upon the validity of a milk ordinance in the City of Dallas. By the terms of an agreement filed in this case it appears that said milk ordinance has been repealed or materially changed so that relator should no longer be held as under the former ordinance. It is, therefore, ordered that he be discharged.

Discharged.


Summaries of

Ex Parte Murphy

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
May 10, 1922
240 S.W. 1118 (Tex. Crim. App. 1922)
Case details for

Ex Parte Murphy

Case Details

Full title:EX PARTE GEORGE MURPHY

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Date published: May 10, 1922

Citations

240 S.W. 1118 (Tex. Crim. App. 1922)
92 Tex. Crim. 32