Gill v. State ex rel. Board

— This was a proceeding for and upon a writ of mandate, by the appellee against the appellant as auditor of Switzerland county, to compel him to issue a warrant for costs and expenses incurred by Ripley county in the trial of the case of the State against Cincinnatus Bradley, indicted for murder in the former county, and tried on a change of venue in the latter county.

*268Omitting the title of the cause and the exhibits referred to, the complaint or petition for the alternative writ was as follows, viz.:

“The plaintiff says, that prior to the 5th day of September, 1871, one Cincinnatus Bradley was…