Taylor v. Governor

Lacy, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the Court: This case as it stands at present on the record is a motion supported by a petition, affidavit, and othei exhibits filed with the clerk, requiring the Governor of the State to show cause why a peremptory mandamus should not issue directing him to deliver to John K. Taylor, his commission as Sheriff for the county of Pulaski.

The petition states that the applicant received a majority of all the votes for the office of Sheriff for the county of Pulaski, on the first Monday of August last, and that the clerk of the county court issued him a…