Donahoo v. St. John

SIMPSON, Justice.

This appeal questions the propriety of an order of the circuit judge of St. Clair County, making absolute an alternative writ of prohibition directed to the appellant, C. W. Donahoo, as mayor of the town of Ragland, Alabama, prohibiting and restraining him as town recorder from proceeding further in a certain quasi criminal case wherein Tillman St. John, appellee, was charged with violating an ordinance of said town.

The facts are: St. John was arrested by one of the city policemen on a charge of violating a liquor prohibition ordinance of the town and thereafter plead guilty…