State ex rel. Jordan v. Buckman
Supreme Court of Florida
This is a writ of mandamus brought against the respondent, as Clerk of the Circuit Court of Duval county, to compel him to restore Jordan’s name to the registration list of that county, from which it had been erased by the County Commissioners, or to register his name thereon.
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This is a writ of mandamus brought against the respondent, as Clerk of the Circuit Court of Duval county, to compel him to restore Jordan’s name to the registration list of that county, from which it had been erased by the County Commissioners, or to register his name thereon. The alternative writ shows that Jordan’s name was erased and he denied the right to vote at the election in 1880, because he had, previously in the same year, been tried before a Justice of the Peace, and found guilty by a jury, of a charge of larceny of property of less value than five dollars, and sentenced by the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Westcott
The relator in this case was convicted of petty larceny, as defined by the statute controlling the subject. This conviction was had through a prosecution before a Justice of the Peace, according to statutory regulations, and not “ on presentment and indictment by a grand jury.” Upon application made after this conviction to the Clerk of the Circuit Court in the county in which he resided (Duval), and in which he was entitled to register, if his conviction of petty larceny did not destroy that right, he was denied registration upon the ground that, under the Constitution and laws of this…
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