Gray v. Abbott
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham. Heard before the Hon. W. .W. Wilkerson. The appeal in this case is from the judgment of the city court awarding a peremptory writ of mandamus upon the petition of appellee. The facts of the case are sufficiently set forth in the opinion. cited Criminal Code, § 4511; 28 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law, 484; Pierpont v. Gronch, 10 Cal. 315; Kora v. Oittj of Ottowa, 32 Ill. 121.
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
This was an application by appellee, John P. Abbott, for a peremptory writ of mandamus to Henry B. Gray, appellant here, as 'county treasurer, to compel him, as such treasurer, to file and. register against the fine and forfeiture fund of the county, a State’s witness certificate, issued to one D. O. Keene, for attending as a State’s witness in the case of the State v. Jim Tucker, indicted, tried and convicted for grand larceny in the criminal court of Jefferson county, and which said certificate had been transferred to the said petitioner, John P. Abbott. Said certificate, covering per diém…
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