State ex rel. Attorney General v. Porter
Supreme Court of Alabama
THIS is an information in the nature of a quo zoarranio, at the suit of the State, on the relation of the Attorney General, for the purpose of trying the respondent’s right to the office of judge of the tenth circuit of this State.
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THIS is an information in the nature of a quo zoarranio, at the suit of the State, on the relation of the Attorney General, for the purpose of trying the respondent’s right to the office of judge of the tenth circuit of this State. The information sets forth in due form, that the respondent was duly elected, on the first Monday in August, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, a representative of the county of Tuscaloosa, in the Legislature of this State: That in virtue of such election, he was duly qualified, and took his seat in the House of Representatives, of the Legislature which commenced…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
— The argument at the bar, has presented these questions: First. Has this court jurisdiction of the case staled in the information and agreed by the parties. Second. Was the respondent constitutionally eligible to the judgeship of the tenth circuit; and if not, can this court pronounce a judgment of ouster.
First. By the second section of the fifth article of the constitution it is declared, that “The supreme court, except in cases *693otherwise directed by this constitution, shall have appellate jurisdiction only; which shall be co-,extensive with the State, under such restrictions and…
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