Court Opinion

ID: 3982531
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 10:39:10.187046+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:13.982558
License: Public Domain

This proceeding was filed in the Court of Criminal Appeals by A.C. Nicholson, county judge of Collingsworth County, and others, charging that Hugh L. Humphries, judge of the District Court of the Forty-seventh Judicial District of Texas, had issued a writ of injunction restraining the relators, including the county judge, county attorney and sheriff of Collingsworth County, from proceeding against Wiles  Cunningham, a partnership composed of Dick Wiles and John Cunningham, for violating the provisions of chapter 74 of the Acts of the Thirty-third Legislature, known as the Pool Hall Law, said relators seeking from this court a writ of prohibition commanding the said Hugh L. Humphries, judge of the Forty-seventh Judicial District, to take no further proceeding in the said injunction matter.
On presentation of the petition to this court on December 8, 1916, an order was issued as follows:
"The clerk will file and docket this petition. The writs prayed for are granted. The clerk will at once issue them as prayed, and also give notice to said parties to appear before this court in open session on January 3, 1917, to show cause why said parties should not be *Page 323 
prohibited and said writs and order should not be perpetuated and made final. A.C. Prendergast, Presiding Judge."
At a later date of the present term, in the case of Lyle v. State, which is reported in 80 Tex.Crim. Rep., 193 S.W. Rep., 680, chapter 74 of the Acts of the Thirty-third Legislature was declared void, and in consequence of this decision it becomes unnecessary to consider the application in this case or further discuss any questions of practice involved.
It is directed that the order made in this cause December 8, 1916, and copied above, be set aside and this proceeding dismissed from the docket of this court.
Dismissed.