STATE EX REL. CHAVEZ v. EVANS

No. 8746.

446 P.2d 445 (1968)

STATE of New Mexico ex rel. Ventura CHAVEZ, Adelicio Moya, Wilfredo Ernest Sedillo, William Higgs, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Jose Alfredo Maestas, Roger Anderson and Preston Monongye, Petitioners, v. Ernestine D. EVANS, Secretary of State of the State of New Mexico, Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

October 25, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan B. Sutin, Albuquerque, for petitioners.

Boston E. Witt, Atty. Gen., Gary O. O'Dowd, Donald W. Miller, Larry N. Smith, Asst. Attys. Gen., Santa Fe, for respondent.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Petitioners, eight in number, seek mandamus to require respondent to certify their names to the various county clerks for the offices to which they were nominated by the People's Constitutional Party. The remaining candidates of that party have already been certified, so we are concerned only with the eight.

There is no question present concerning compliance with the law in the nominating process, timeliness of the filing of the...

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