State ex rel. Attorney General v. Messmore

By the Court,

Dixon, C. J.

Motion by the defendant to quash, the writ and dismiss the information in a proceeding in the nature of a quo warranto, instituted by the attorney general for the purpose of removing the respondent from the office of judge of the circuit court for the sixth judicial circuit in this state, which it is alleged he has usurped and unlawfully holds.

The information or complaint is in the form heretofore usually adopted when the proceeding was by information, properly so called, and avers generally that the defendant “for the space of one day and upwards, from the 11th day…