Case ID: ala_208/html/0701-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(93 South. 924)
    STATE ex rel. SMITH, Atty. Gen., v. MITCHELL, Sheriff of Lauderdale County.
    (8 Div. 312.)
    (Supreme Court of Alabama.
    July 14, 1921.)
    J. Q. Smith, Atty. Gen., Harwell G. Davis, Atty. Gen., and Horace C. Wilkinson, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for petitioner. Simpson & Simpson, of Florence, and James J. Mayfield, of Montgomery, opposed.
   PER CURIAM.

Original petition to the Supreme Court by the State of Alabama, on the relation of its Attorney General, for the impeachment of George W. Mitchell, as sheriff of Lauderdale county, Ala. The court finds the defendant guilty of corruption in office, and he is removed from the office of sheriff of Lauder-dale county, Ala.