Bigby v. City of Tyler

Citations

• 44 Tex. 351

Syllabus

<p>Jurisdiction of mayors.—The Constitution of 1869 provides for only-five justices of the peace in each county, and makes no reference to a mayor, and since its adoption a mayor of a city is not ex officio a justice of the peace, and his authority is limitedto such grant of power as may be contained in the charter of incorporation under which he acts, and to such laws as may relate to him as mayor, and not as a justice of the peace.</p> <p>Habeas Corpus.—The relators, Bigby and Harris, complained of illegal arrest and detention under a capias issued by the mayor of the city of Tyler, charging them with keeping a house of public prostitution in the city of Tyler.</p>