State Ex Rel. Jackson v. Bowden
Citation | 101 P. 654,80 Kan. 49 |
Decision Date | 10 April 1909 |
Docket Number | 15,994 |
Parties | THE STATE OF KANSAS, ex rel. Fred S. Jackson, as Attorney-general, v. DAVID E. BOWDEN |
Court | Kansas Supreme Court |
Decided January, 1909.
Original proceeding in quo warranto.
STATEMENT.
THIS is an original proceeding in quo warranto, brought by the state to oust the defendant from the office of chief of police of the city of Kansas City. A commissioner was appointed to take the evidence and make findings of fact. His report, to which no exception is taken, follows:
"On January 29, 1909, I met C. W. Trickett, assistant attorney-general, attorney for plaintiff, and H. S. Dean and Ralph Nelson, attorneys for defendant, at Kansas City, Kan., and made the following
AMENDMENTS TO FINDINGS OF FACT:
"Exhibit A" referred to in the findings gives the numbers of the police court cases, the names of the defendants, some of whom appear more than once, the dates of the arrests, the charges preferred, the names of the arresting officers, the names of the officers who were witnesses, the sentences imposed, and some other information.
Judgment rendered in favor of defendant.
SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.
1. INTOXICATING LIQUORS--Duty of Officers to Notify County Attorney of Illegal Traffic. To comply with section 2462 of the General Statutes of 1901, requiring the marshal and other police officers of a city having notice or knowledge of any violation of the prohibitory liquor law to notify the county attorney of the fact of such violation and to furnish him the names of the witnesses by whom such fact can be proved, it is not sufficient that the officer should merely talk occasionally with the county attorney in a general way about police court liquor prosecutions. The notification should be given in...
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