The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
MISCONDUCT IS CHARGED TO SHERIFFS Guy O'Rear Resigns, Leaving. Two Sheriffs
 To Be Tried TAX COLLECTOR
 UNDER SCRUTINY Governor Instituted Pro- ceedings Against Sher-
 if Of Mobile SUPREME COURT
 TO HEAR CHARGES Calhoun Tax Official Charged With Misappropriating
 Public Funds
SUPREME COURT
 TO HEAR CHARGES
tState Capital Bureaul

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Sept. 21.- The recent resignation of Guy V. O'Rear as sheriff of Walker county, while facing impeachment charges, leaves still two sheriffs against whom impeachment pro- ceedings have been brought or directed. In the case of Sheriff P. H. Mcqueen of Crenshaw county, proceedings have been instituted and the case is pend- ing before the supreme court, while in the case of Sheriff Paul Cazalas of Mo bile county, impeachment proceedings have been directed to be instituted
 In addition to the cases of the three sheriffs, a fourth impeachment case has recently developed, when the grand jury of Calhoun county recommended inn peachment of c. w. Whitesitle, county tax collector, one a charge of misap- propriation of public funds. This case will be tried in circuit court, and the two remaining cases against the sheriffs before the supreme court. All four lm- peachment cases developed, in different parts of the state, in about three months time.
 How They Started Of the impeachment proceedings in the cases of the three sheriffs. each was started in a different manner. O'Rear was indicted by grand jury and articles of impeachment filed against him by Attorney General Harwell G. Davis after the grand jury had recommended it. Charges against Mcqueen were brought by five tax payers of Crenshaw county under the provision of law which allows citizens to initiate impeachment proceedings in this manner. The charges against Sheriff Cazalas of Mobile will be filed by the attorney general at the direction of the governor, who in direct ing the impeachment stated that he did so upon the recommendation of Attorney General Davis.
 O'Rear, wno resigned before his case came to trial, was charged with wilful neglect of duty, corrption in office, in- competency, and commission of an act involving moral turpitude.
 Case Against Mcqueen
 Sheriff Mcqueen, against whom charges are pending before the supreme court, though not set for hearing, is charged with wilful neglect of duty, cor ruption in office, and intemperance in the use of intoxicating liquors to such an extent, in view of the dignity of his office, as units him for the discharge of it's official duties, according to the allegation of the information filed against him by the Crenshaw county citizens. Special cases are set forth where, it is charged, the Crenshaw county sheriff has wilfully neglected his duty in the matter of enforcement of law, particularly the prohibition law. Under the charge of corruption in of. flee it is charged that the sheriff fraudu. lently collected from the state certain sums. An instance is also specified. where it is chY 4, collision existe6 between McQuP and violators of tho prohibition lT whereby such violators were to be/ zen notice of intended raids.
 The 7 .rges against Mcqueen were brougK oy J. Frank Taylor, J. c. Mc- LendG., H. F. Knight, W. T. Holley and II. c. Fem, Crenshaw county citi- zens.