Board of Revenue and Road Com'rs v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Law and Equity Court, Mobile County; Saffold Berney, Judge. Mandamus by the State, on the relation of Corinne A. Roberts, against the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners of Mobile County. Judgment for relator, for peremptory writ, and respondents appeal.
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Appeal from Law and Equity Court, Mobile County; Saffold Berney, Judge. Mandamus by the State, on the relation of Corinne A. Roberts, against the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners of Mobile County. Judgment for relator, for peremptory writ, and respondents appeal. The relator, Corinne A. Roberts, filed a petition for mandamus against the board of revenue and road commissioners of Mobile county, individually and as a body, to compel said board to issue warrants to her as probation officer under the terms of the act approved September 16, 1915, in reference to desertion and nonsupport.…
1DissentGardner, J.
I am unable to agree with the conclusion of the majority, and will here briefly state my views:
By this proceeding the constitutional validity of the act of 1915 (Gen. Acts 1915, p. 560), the caption and the first section of which appear in the foregoing statement of the case, is assailed. It is first insisted that the portion of section 1 of said act which provides for the payment out of the general funds of the county the sum of 50 cents to the probation officer for each day a prisoner serves under a sentence of hard labor for the county for a violation of this statute is unconstitutional,…
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