State v. Alcorn

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

—This proceeding was instituted by the State to remove Bobert Alcorn from the office of county and district clerk of Boberts County, on the ground that he had been guilty of willful official misconduct in that he had failed and refused to keep his office at the county seat of his county.

The case made by the pleadings is thus substantially stated in brief of counsel for appellee:

44 The petition alleged that prior to December 20, 1888, Boberts County *390was unorganized and attached to Wheeler County for judicial purposes, but that on said day a petition was filed with the…