State ex rel. Attorney General v. Tally
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was an impeachment proceeding against John B. Tally, Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, and was commenced in the Supreme Court by an information filed on the part of the State by William L. Martin, as Attorney-General, founded upon a report of the grand jury of Jackson county. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion. All the evidence as to any relations between R. C. Ross and Annie Skelton should be excluded from consideration.
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This was an impeachment proceeding against John B. Tally, Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, and was commenced in the Supreme Court by an information filed on the part of the State by William L. Martin, as Attorney-General, founded upon a report of the grand jury of Jackson county. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion. All the evidence as to any relations between R. C. Ross and Annie Skelton should be excluded from consideration. The knowledge or information on this subject which the Skeltons had on the day of the killing, they had had for at least a month…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The evidence was taken ore terns in this case. There were many witnesses. Much difficulty and delay in securing their attendance at Montgomery were apprehended. To facilitate the hearing of the case and to subserve the convenience and necessities of the witnesses, the judges of this court, at the request and in accordame with the agreement of the respondent *33and the State consented to take the evidence and hear the arguments of counsel*in the cause at Huntsville, near the scene of the acts and omissions laid against the respondent in the information. And the evidence was there taken, and the…
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