STATE EX REL. DANFORTH v. ALFORD

No. 56820.

467 S.W.2d 55 (1971)

STATE of Missouri ex rel. John C. DANFORTH, Attorney General, Relator, v. Hon. John M. ALFORD, Clerk of the County Court of Pemiscot County, Missouri, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

May 11, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Blackmar, Asst. Atty. Gen., for John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen.

James E. Reeves, Caruthersville, for respondent.


ORDER.

Provisional rule in prohibition made absolute.

Opinion to be filed later.

HOLMAN, Judge.

Original proceeding in prohibition. The relator is John C. Danforth, Attorney General, and the respondent is John M. Alford, County Clerk of Pemiscot County. The relator seeks to prohibit respondent from placing the name of Clyde Orton on the ballot for the special election to be held on May 11, 1971, to elect a sheriff for Pemiscot County. We issued...

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