Hunt v. State

Former Governor Harold Guy Hunt petitioned the Montgomery Circuit Court for a writ of mandamus ordering the Alabama Department of Public Safety and its director to provide him protection pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, § 36-33-2(a). That section is as follows:

“(a) The department of public safety is required to protect, from the date of his election, throughout his term and for a period of five years after the expiration of his term of office, the person of the governor of the state of Alabama, [and] the members of his immediate family_”

The trial court denied the petition, holding that Hunt did not…