Case ID: or_48/html/0621-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Moore", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued 3 April,
    decided 10 April, 1906.
    Ex Parte HUSSEY.
    85 Pac. 332.
    Prom Coos: James W. Hamilton, Judge.
    Petition by E. D. Hussey for a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release from custody on a charge of violating the local option law. Erom a judgment denying the petition, petitioner appeals.
    Reversed.
    Eor appellant there was a brief over the names of Sperry & Chase and J. M. Upton, with an oral argument by Mr. William Carlton Chase.
    
    Por respondent there was a brief over the names of A. M. Crawford, Attorney General, and A. M. Brown, Disriet Attorney, with an oral argument by Mr. Homer Isaac Van Winhle.
    
   Mr. Justice Moore

delivered the opinion of the court.

The petitioner, E. D. Hussey, was convicted in the recorder’s court of North Bend, Coos County, for violating the provisions of the local option act as claimed to have been adopted in that county November 8, 1904, by a majority of votes cast in favor of prohibition, and having been adjudged to pay a fine of $50 and to be incarcerated until such amercement was paid, he petitioned the court to be discharged from the restraint thus imposed, on the ground that he was illegally deprived of his liberty. The petition was denied and he appeals.

In the case of Marsden v. Harlocker, 48 Or. 90 (85 Pac. 328), we decided that the vote on the local option act cast in Coos County, November 8, 1904, was void, and as the conclusion there reached is controlling herein it follows that the judgment in the case at bar must be reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions to discharge the prisoner; and it is so ordered.

Reversed.