Sam H. Townsend v. Sam H. Terrell

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court granted a writ of mandamus ordering the State Comptroller to issue salary warrants to the elected District Attorney of the Second Judicial District. The Court held that the 1927 amendment recreating the district attorney office implicitly repealed the earlier 1927 act that abolished it, because the two specific statutes are irreconcilable and the later statute controls.