McMahan v. Yeilding

SIMPSON, Justice.

This case was heretofore assigned to two other Justices in the order of their ascendancy to the bench of this court, and was on January 11, 1960 reassigned to the writer for study and preparation of the opinion.

Appellant, Paul E. McMahan, was a detective for the City of Birmingham and as such was a permanent classified employee under the Civil Service System of Jefferson County. Charges were preferred against appellant before the City Commission of the City of Birmingham on the following grounds:(1) That he had conspired with other detectives to threaten the Chief of Police…