Hodges v. Archer

HARWOOD, Justice.

Norwood Hodges and James E. Caldwell, as members of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, and Spencer H. Robb, as Administrator of said Board, filed in this court a sworn petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to require Hon. David R. Archer, as Judge of the Circuit Court of Madison County, to expunge and hold for naught an order issued by Judge Archer whereby forty-eight cases of whiskey seized as contraband liquor by law enforcement officers were ordered to be returned by agents of the Board to the party from whom the liquor was seized.

The petition asserted that the order…