The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-01
CAZALAS DENIES
 LIQUOR CHARLES
 MADE BY DAVIS
Mobile County Sheriff Cites His Record In
 Long Rebuttal
(special Leased Wire to Ase.Herald.

MOBILE, Ala, Nov. 30.--General denial of charges made in the public statement of Attorney General Harwell G. Davis regarding the pending impeach- ment proceedings against Sheriff Paul Cazalas of Mobile was made tonight by the sheriff. +r-:''
 Sheriff Cazalas declared he was mak- ing every effort to enforce the prohibi- ton law in Mobile county and added that he wanted a full trial of the charges against him before the supreme court.
 The sheriff in his statement refers to the note signed by persons said to have been bootleggers and gamblers and which it was testified in court was used to pay Caxalas campaign expenses and denies any knowledge of the money being used for that purpose.
 The statement of the sheriff declares in the beginning that he does not desire to participate in a newspaper con troversy but desired to answer the charges of the attorney. general.
 Testimony Of BO0tleggers
 "1. I have no means of knowing posi- lively who complained to Mir. Davis of my conduct of the office of sheriff of Mobile county other than such differences as would fairly be drawn from the al- legations of the information filed against me. From this information it is appar- ent that MT. Davis is relying upon the testimony of notorious bootleggers and law violat0rs of this city in his effort to remove me from office, one of these boOtleggers by the way having recently had his sentence affirmed by the Ala bama court of appeals in case for vio- lating the prohibition law where we convicted him in the circuit court of Mo- bile county. He was given hard labor sentence of six months besides being fined $500. don't think that the re- spectacle element of our citizens ap- prove of an effort to remove a faithful officer on the testimony of such charac- ters. '
 "2. In presenting these charges against me we have the most unusual and unprecedented, so far as I know, spectacle of an attorney general request ing the governor of the state that he, as attorney general, be, permitted to file impeachment proceedings against an of ficer. There are four ways, as I under stand it in which impeachment proceed ings against sheriff can be started. First, on the recommendation of the SEuHu Jury ScCOHu, Ou INSTRUCTIONS Dy the supreme court; third, on instruc- tions by the governor; and fourth, by the action of five taxpayers giving bond to secure all the costs, etc. Each grand jury in my county during my adminis- tration has praised in no unqualified terms my activities in the enforcement of the laws ond the general conduct of my office. The supreme court has is- sued no instructions to have me inn peached. No tax payers have given bond and filed a petition for my i'm peachment, and the governor of this state had taken no action looking to. wards my impeachment until, as shown by the correspondence between Governor Brandon and Attorney General Dayis published in the daily press, the gov ernor complied with the request of Mir. Davis and authorized these proceedings.
 Sites Record
 ''3. While there have been violations of the prohibition laws in my county the same as in every other county in this state and every other county of every other state in this union, yet no such violations have been permitted by me, as charged by. the attorney gen eral, I have done my -utme st to stamp
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