State ex rel. Johnson v. Lovejoy
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was an impeachment proceeding originally commenced in the Supreme Court by the filing of a petition or information by Thomas L. Johnson and others in their own behalf and for the State, wherein they averred in many several specifications tliat J. H. Lovejoy, judge of probate of Etowah county, in the State of Alabama, while acting as said judge of probate corruptly charged and received fees in several instances and transactions, and also by separate and several…
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This was an impeachment proceeding originally commenced in the Supreme Court by the filing of a petition or information by Thomas L. Johnson and others in their own behalf and for the State, wherein they averred in many several specifications tliat J. H. Lovejoy, judge of probate of Etowah county, in the State of Alabama, while acting as said judge of probate corruptly charged and received fees in several instances and transactions, and also by separate and several specifications that said Lovejoy as said judge of probate ivas guilty of willful neglect in the discharge of his duty as said…
1Per curiam
Upon a consideration of the evidence in this case we are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the respondent as probate judge of Etowah county charged and received fees or compensation in several of the instances alleged in the information to which he was not entitled under the law, but we are not so satisfied that he charged and received such fees or compensation corruptly in any instance; nor are we satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the respondent was guilty of the willful neglect of duty charged in one or more of the specifications of the information. We, therefore, find and…
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