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        "text": "Mr. Chiee Justice Riclcs\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nAppellant, Thomas Watts, presented his petition to the circuit court of Sangamon county for a writ of mandamus against Sangamon county praying for an order on the county treasurer to pay his bill of costs incurred in a certain criminal proceeding wherein appellant was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary from said county, setting up in the petition that the Supreme Court of the State- of Illinois reversed and remanded said cause, alleging that the judgment entered by said Supreme Court provided that said appellant should have and recover from said defendant in error his costs by him in his behalf expended, etc. A demurrer having been filed and sustained to the petition, appellant appeals direct to this court.\nA writ of mandamus being nothing more than an action at law, an appeal should be taken in the same manner and to the same court as other actions at law. Section lo of chapter 87, (Hurd\u2019s Stat. 1899,) under the head of Mandamus, provides: \u201cAppeals and writs of error may be taken and prosecuted in the same manner, upon the same terms, and with like effect as in other civil cases.\u201d Under this statute we think the appeal should have been taken to the Appellate Court.\nWhile appellant, in his brief, has discussed and directed the attention of the court to certain provisions of the constitution of 1870, and to prior constitutions, which he asserts have some application to this case, and also discusses certain statutory enactments in reference to the payment of costs in criminal cases, we are unable to see that any question that might call for the construction of the constitution is raised that has not already been passed upon in Carpenter v. People, 3 Gilm. 147, Wells v. McCullock, 13 Ill. 606, McArthur v. Artz, 129 id. 352, and Anderson v. Schubert, 158 id. 75. The validity of no statute is questioned, and one or the other of such questions must be involved to give this court jurisdiction.\nThe appeal will therefore be dismissed, and appellant will be permitted to withdraw his record filed in this court.\nAppeal dismissed.",
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    "head_matter": "Thomas Watts v. Sangamon County.\nOpinion filed October 24, 1904.\nAppeals and errors\u2014appeal in mandamus should be taken as in other cases at law. An appeal from a judgment of the circuit court sustaining a demurrer to a petition for mandamus should be taken to the Appellate Court as in other cases at law, in the absence of any of the conditions giving the Supreme Court jurisdiction of a direct appeal.\nAppeal, from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county \u2022 the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding. 0\nGeorge A. Sanders, for appellant.\nW. E. ShuTT, Jr., State\u2019s Attorney, for appellee."
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