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Strauss v. State

  • 76 Tex. Crim. 132
  • 173 S.W. 663
  • 1915 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 319
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
Jan 20, 1915
Status
Published
On the bench
Davidson, Haepee, Harper, Pbehdebgast
Cited by
2 cases

upholding the constitutionality of a city ordinance making it unlawful for a white person and any Negro to have sexual intercourse with each other within the city limits

How later courts described this case

  • upholding the constitutionality of a city ordinance making it unlawful for a white person and any Negro to have sexual intercourse with each other within the city limits

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

I concur in the reversal on ground stated. But I am of the opinion the ordinance is void. Cases collated in Branch's Crim. Law, sec. 207 et seq., and will write later. *Page 141

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