Ex parte Lusk
Supreme Court of Alabama
Application by petition by John A. Lusk, the solicitor of the ninth judicial circuit, for a mandamus from this court to the Circuit Court of DeKalb, Hon. John B. Tally presiding, “commanding said court to recognize said petitioner as the solicitor for the ninth judicial circuit, and to allow him to appear in said court as the solicitor for the said circuit, and therein to perform and discharge all the duties required by law of circuit solicitors.”
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Application by petition by John A. Lusk, the solicitor of the ninth judicial circuit, for a mandamus from this court to the Circuit Court of DeKalb, Hon. John B. Tally presiding, “commanding said court to recognize said petitioner as the solicitor for the ninth judicial circuit, and to allow him to appear in said court as the solicitor for the said circuit, and therein to perform and discharge all the duties required by law of circuit solicitors.” A bill of exceptions was reserved by the petitioner to the action and rulings of the court below in refusing to recognize him as solicitor, and it…
1Opinion of the CourtSomeeyille, J.
— The relator is the duly elected, commissioned, and qualified solicitor of the Ninth Judicial Cir*520cuit in this State, having acted in this official capacity since November, 18b6. The county- of DeKalb is one of the counties enumerated by law as belonging to this circuit. In January, 1887, during the regular term of the DeKalb Circuit Court, and at a time when the criminal docket of the court was required by law to be taken up, the relator made a motion before the circuit judge, to be recognized as the solicitor of said circuit, and to be permitted to appear in said court for the purpose of…
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