State Ex Rel. Hebert v. Hall

House Bill No. 268 of the 1957 G-eneral Assembly, purporting to change the method of selecting jury commissioners in the eighteenth judicial circuit, was vetoed by the Governor two weeks after the legislature had adjourned. This suit was brought by the prosecuting attorney for a decree declaring the attempted veto to have been ineffective and for a writ of mandamus requiring the Secretary of State to enroll the measure as a valid act. It is the plaintiff’s theory that when the legislature adjourned the bill in question had already remained with the Governor for a sufficient time to become a…