State ex rel. Garber v. Cazalas
Supreme Court of Alabama
Original application in the Supreme Court. Impeachment proceedings begun by the State of Alabama on the relation of its attorney general against Frank Cazalas, Sr., as 'sheriff of Mobile county, for permitting prisoners to be taken from the jail and lynched. (The argument was oral.) (The argument was oral.)
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
This is a proceeding for the impeachment of the defendant.
The facts are undisputed that on Thursday, the 21st of January, 1909, while Philip Fotch, who was a faithful and efficient deputy sheriff, was attempting to serve a warrant on a negro named Richard Robertson for a misdemeanor, said Robertson, without any excuse or justification, inflicted a mortal wound on said Fotch, from which he died that night; that it was a willful and deliberate murder, and excited a great indignation in the city of Mobile, and that on the night of Friday, the 22d of January, 1909, a party of masked men,…
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