Griffin v. Wall
Supreme Court of Alabama
[IN SUTTEE OE CONTESTED SHERIFF'S ELECTION.] Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Coosa. Tried before tire Hon. C. W. Rapieb,. Ih this case, the election of Thomas T. Wall to the sheriffalty of Coosa county was contested by David A. Griffin, an opposing candidate, who filed in the office of the probate judge, on the 21st August, 1857, a written, statement containing the following allegations : That the election for sheriff of said county was had on Monday, the 3d day of August,…
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[IN SUTTEE OE CONTESTED SHERIFF'S ELECTION.] Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Coosa. Tried before tire Hon. C. W. Rapieb,. Ih this case, the election of Thomas T. Wall to the sheriffalty of Coosa county was contested by David A. Griffin, an opposing candidate, who filed in the office of the probate judge, on the 21st August, 1857, a written, statement containing the following allegations : That the election for sheriff of said county was had on Monday, the 3d day of August, 1857, said Wall and Griffin being the opposing candidates; “ that fraud and malconduct intervened at said election, on…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
We do not entertain a doubt of the correctness of the decision of the circuit court, in denying to appellant the right to a trial de novo in that court. The sections of the Code which give the right of appeal, first from the probate to the circuit court, and afterwards from the circuit to the supreme court, are, in substance, identical. We know of no principle of construction which will authorize us to discriminate between the effect of these several appeals. — Code, §§ 334, 335, et seq.
Section 337, which relates to each of these classes of appeal, authorizes “the clerk of the appellate…
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