Barnes v. State Ex Rel. Tate

RICE, Judge.

This was a petition for mandamus filed on behalf of appellee seeking to have appellant issue to him a witness certificate for one day’s attendance as a state’s witness in the circuit court, in the sum of 75 cents under the provisions of the act of the Legislature of Alabama approved October 19, 1932 (Gen. Acts Ala. 1932, Ex. Sess., p. 102).

Appellant declined and resisted, claiming that appellee was entitled to a certificate in only the sum of 50 cents, under the provisions of the act of the Legislature of Alabama approved February 18, 1895 (Acts of the General Assembly of Alabama…