KELLUM v. JOHNSON

No. 41460.

237 Miss. 580 (1959)

115 So.2d 147

KELLUM v. JOHNSON.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 29, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.W. Kellum, Sumner, pro se.

McClure, Fant & McClure, Sardis, for appellee.


LEE, J.

J.W. Kellum appealed from a judgment of the Special Court, set up under the Corrupt Practices Act of 1935, which dismissed his petition to contest the democratic nomination of Roy E. Johnson in the primary election of August 4, 1959, for the office of District Attorney of the Seventeenth Circuit Court District of the State.

In the primary election, Kellum received 9411 votes and Johnson received 9430 votes, thus giving to Johnson a majority of 19 votes...

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