STATE EX REL. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION v. EVANS

No. 8915.

460 P.2d 250 (1969)

80 N.M. 720

STATE of New Mexico ex rel. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, Bruce King, President, Petitioner, v. Ernestine D. EVANS, Secretary of State, Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

October 20, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.W. Atkinson, Albuquerque, for petitioner.

James A. Maloney, Atty. Gen., J.F. Bingaman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for respondent.


OPINION

MOISE, Justice.

The electors of the state having voted approval of a call for a convention to revise or amend the constitution, the legislature, at its next session, provided by law for calling the same. This was all done in accord with the provisions of art. XIX, § 2, of our present constitution, and appears as ch. 134, N.M.S.L. 1969. The petitioner here, being the body convened by virtue of that law, asserts its right to direct respondent...

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