May, County Attorney v. Finley, Comptroller

GAINES, Chief Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Comptroller of the State to issue his warrant upon the State Treasurer, in favor of the petitioner, for the sum of fifty dollars.

After alleging that the petitioner is the County Attorney of Galveston County and that the respondent is the Comptroller of the State, and some other formal matters, the petition proceeds as follows:

“Tour petitioner further represents, that on the following dates, the following named defendants were charged by complaint in the Recorder’s Court of the City of Galveston, sitting as an…