McClain v. Sorrels

The petitioner, John G-. McClain, is the sheriff of Lincoln County, and has filed a petition here for a writ of prohibition to restrain the circuit court of that county from summarily entering a judgment removing him from office.

The petitioner was indicted by the grand jury of Lincoln County at the September, 1921, term of the circuit court for the statutory offense of being intoxicated on a public highway. He was tried and convicted at that term of court, and a judgment was rendered imposing a fine of $25 in accordance with the verdict of the jury. He appealed to this court, and the judgment…