State ex rel. Winship v. Clark

This is an application for a mandamus, to the auditor of public accounts, to compel his issuance of a warrant on the treasury, for the amount of a bill for board and lodging of a petit jury during the trial of a capital case. The jury was by order of the court, required to be kept together by the marshal during the trial, and the expense of doing this was allowed as costs against the State by the judge and circuit attorney/and certified to the .auditor. The auditor refused to allow said item on the ground that he had no authority by law to do so, and whether there is such authority, is the…