Gordon v. State

Citations

• 47 Tex. 208

Syllabus

<p>Sheriff, removal op.—Under the Constitution of 1876, which permits the removal of a sheriff from office only when the grounds of removal are set forth in writing, and found to be true by the verdict of a jury, this court will not affirm a judgment which provided for tiie removal of a sheriff without the intervention of a jury in 1875.</p> <p>. On the return of the cause to the District Court, after affirmance, that court would have no power under the Constitution to carry out the judgment.</p>