Snoddy v. Madison Co. Court

The defendants aforesaid having made return on the writ aforesaid in the following words and figures, viz:

“ At a court held for Madison county on Monday the 2d day of March, 1801, the court returned the following answer to the annexed mandamus, to wit: This court are of an opinion that the general principle which governed a former court when making a recommendation of sheriff under the present constitution, was that when the county of Madison was first established, that John. Snoddy and Archibald Woods were both commissioned as justices of the peace, and that afterward Jolin Snoddy was…