Towle v. State ex rel. Fisher
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from decision of the Circuit Court of the County of Leon, made at the Fall Term, 1849, awarding a mandamus against the. Comptroller. The facts of the case ave sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtDouglas, C. J.
This is a snit instituted in the Circuit Court of the Middle Circuit rof this State, wherein Alfred A. Fisher, Sheriff of Leon County, by .petition complains, that at the October Term of that Court, in the year 1848, one Elijah B. Clark was indicted by the Grand Jury for .an assault and battery : that the petitioner rendered whatever service was required of him in the prosecution of said Clark, for which service he was entitled to the fees given by the statute, which, ac•cording to his account annexed, amount to $58 52-100. That said Clark was acquitted, and said fees arc properly chargeable…
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