Case ID: ky_3/html/0139-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Trimble.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MILLS vs. PULASKI CIRCUIT COURT.
    
      December 16th.
    
    Circuit court!$ trom office their attomev for the commonwealth.
    whether it can ¡,e done at pieafcre, oronly ⅛ the exer-foua"d y*K lon*
    THE plaintiff having been for some time attorney for the commoswealth for said court, that court, at ji*r tr> 1 * i their last term, removed him from, office, and appointed another.
    The order, of removal assigned as a cause for it, that ,,, . 0 , he had removed lrom the county, and that great inconvenience had arisen to the county from it., A copy, of the order of removal was produced, and a motion made for a mandamus, to restore him to the office.
   By the Court. — The circuit courts certainly have the power to remove their attorney for the common; wealth from office ; and have, in. this instance, properly done so..

Judge Trimble.

— Perhaps, the court in, removing their attorney, ought to be confined to exercising a sound discretion in it. In this instance, the order states that inconveniences had arisen to the county, from Mr, Mills’s removal out of the county. This court must take the whole order together. That court, therefore, acted properly in the exercise of that discretion.

Motion overruled.