State Ex Rel. Latour v. Stone

On January 4, 1939, the relator, John Latour, presented to this Court his petition for a writ of habeas corpus containing allegations, among others, that at the fall term of the Circuit Court of Volusia County the grand jury investigated certain supposed misdeeds of the petitioner during his service as a city official of the city of Daytona Beach, and that despite the failure of the grand jury to return an indictment, an information was filed against him by the State Attorney of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, charging him with malpractice in office.

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