Dawson v. Sayre
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Heard before the Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. This was an application by petition, on the relation of A. D. Sayre, clerk of the City Court of Montgomery, for a mandamus to R. H. Dawson, as president of the board of inspectors of convicts, requiring him to deliver certified bills of costs, as made out by the petitioner and approved by the presiding judge of the City Court, to the contractor to whom the several convicts were assigned and…
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Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Heard before the Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. This was an application by petition, on the relation of A. D. Sayre, clerk of the City Court of Montgomery, for a mandamus to R. H. Dawson, as president of the board of inspectors of convicts, requiring him to deliver certified bills of costs, as made out by the petitioner and approved by the presiding judge of the City Court, to the contractor to whom the several convicts were assigned and delivered. There were four convicts (Price Washington and three others), who were jointly indicted, tried and convicted…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
The present suit arose under act No. 46, approved February 28, 1887, Acts Ala. 1886-87, pp. 186-7 ; amendatory of a former statute. The whole statute relates to the payment of costs by the hirer of persons convicted of penitentiary offenses. The provisions of the statute are, that “ whenever a person is convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary, the clerk of the court of the county in which the conviction was had, shall forward to the president of the Board of Inspectors of convicts a certified copy of the bill of costs in the case, which said copy of the bill of costs shall be delivered to…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- McLeod v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1860
- Dent & Magruder v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1868
- Coleman v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
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- Newman v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
- Jones v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1918
- United States v. JemisonDistrict Court, S.D. Alabama · 1926