McDaniel v. State

This appeal is from a judgment removing'the appellant from the office of sheriff on charges of official misconduct. Appellant was elected sheriff of Delta county for a second time at the general election in 1926. In August, 1927, Ben. D. Clower, county attorney of Delta county, filed a petition in the name of the state of Texas, charging the appellant with having unlawfully collected from the state fees in felony cases which he was not entitled to charge and collect. The amended petition, on which the case was tried, alleges, in substance, that, in making out his accounts against the state…