State Ex Rel. Paoli v. Baldwin

An alternative writ of mandamus was issued herein to which respondents filed a return and thereupon relator moved for a peremptory writ notwithstanding respondent's return.

Relator appears to have been a trainer of race horses and had been licensed as such by the respondent but by reason of benzedrine having been found in the urine of a horse named James Acker immediately after a race the respondent commission suspended the license of relator as a trainer at all race tracks in this state for a period of twelve months.

Among other things the respondents' Return alleged:

". . . benzedrine had been…