State ex rel. Attorney General v. Buckley
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was an information, filed in the supreme court, by the attorney general against Charles "W. Buckley, judge of the probate court of Montgomery county,' praying his impeachment and removal from office, under the provisions of “ an act to provide for the impeachment and removal from office of the officers mentioned in section 2 and section 3 of article vii of the Constitution of Alabama,” approved March 7th, 1876. On the 30th day of March, 1876, two attorneys of the court…
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This was an information, filed in the supreme court, by the attorney general against Charles "W. Buckley, judge of the probate court of Montgomery county,' praying his impeachment and removal from office, under the provisions of “ an act to provide for the impeachment and removal from office of the officers mentioned in section 2 and section 3 of article vii of the Constitution of Alabama,” approved March 7th, 1876. On the 30th day of March, 1876, two attorneys of the court presented the affidavits of sis persons, charging the defendant with corruption in office and with certain official…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The Constitution of 1875 introduced certain new regulations to be observed by the general assembly in the enactment of laws, not theretofore known in our constitutional history. Among these new regulations are the following, found in Article IV: '
Sec. 19. . . No bill shall be so altered or amended on its passage through either house as to change its original purpose.
Sec. 20. No bill bhall become a law until it shall have been referred to a committee of each house, and returned therefrom.
Sec. 21. Every bill shall be read on three different days in each house, and no bill shall become a law…
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