State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Savage
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was a proceeding for the impeachment of Robert R. Savage, judge of probate of Cherokee county, commenced by information filed in this court on the 6th September, 1889, which is here set out in full: “To the Honorable, the Supreme Court of Alabama: William L. Martin, Attorney-General of the State of Alabama, who, for and in the name of the said State in this behalf, prosecutes in his own proper person, comes into the said Hon. Supreme Court at Montgomery, on the 6th day…
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This was a proceeding for the impeachment of Robert R. Savage, judge of probate of Cherokee county, commenced by information filed in this court on the 6th September, 1889, which is here set out in full: “To the Honorable, the Supreme Court of Alabama: William L. Martin, Attorney-General of the State of Alabama, who, for and in the name of the said State in this behalf, prosecutes in his own proper person, comes into the said Hon. Supreme Court at Montgomery, on the 6th day of September, 1889; and for the said State, and upon the report of a grand jury of the county of Cherokee in said State,…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
This case, which is an impeachment proceeding against R. R. Savage, judge of probate of Cherokee county, instituted in this court, is submitted on a motion to quash the information on the fourth, fifth, ninth and tenth grounds, and on a demurrer to the other grounds.
In respect to the impeachment of public officer a jurisdiction not theretofore existing is created by the Constitution and statutes, and the mode of its exercise provided, to which the proceeding must substantially conform. Section 4840 of Code 1886 provides: “It shall be the duty of the Attorney-General to institute proceedings…
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