State Ex Rel. v. Peck

The Attorney General, at the direction of the Governor of the state, made on investigation of the official conduct of one W.A. Peck as county clerk of Pontotoc county, and as a result thereof, on July 27, 1927, filed a complaint in the name of the state against said Peck asking his removal from office on certain grounds alleged in the complaint.

The trial court sustained defendant's motion to strike counts Nos. 3 to 15, inclusive, of the complaint, and the state then dismissed the other counts, elected to stand on the counts dismissed by the court, and appealed to this court, assigning as…