Board of Revenue and Road Com'rs v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Law and Equity Court, Mobile County; Saffold Berney, Judge. Mandamus by the State, on the relation of Corinne A. Roberts, against the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners of Mobile County. Judgment for relator, for peremptory writ, and respondents appeal.
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Appeal from Law and Equity Court, Mobile County; Saffold Berney, Judge. Mandamus by the State, on the relation of Corinne A. Roberts, against the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners of Mobile County. Judgment for relator, for peremptory writ, and respondents appeal. The relator, Corinne A. Roberts, filed a petition for mandamus against the board of revenue and road commissioners of Mobile county, individually and as a body, to compel said board to issue warrants to her as probation officer under the terms of the act approved September 16, 1915, in reference to desertion and nonsupport.…
1Opinion of the Court
REÍR OURIAM.
The court is of the opinion that so much of section 1 of the above act as may fix a charge upon the counties of 50 cents per day, upon the sentence of the derelict, to a probation officer to be expended upon the direction of the judge, and whether the county did or did not collect the same upon the said sentence, is foreign to the title of the said act. Fastening this liability upon the counties after the sentence, and regardless of what it may collect for the hire of the convict, is not germane or cognate to the general subject dealt with in the title of the act, and the-…
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