Sparkman v. Saylor

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

At the regular election, November 6, 1917, appellee M. S. Saylor and appellant, Z. R. Colwell, were candidates for the office of justice of the peace in magisterial district No. 3, Leslie county, appellee receiving 114 votes, and Colwell 69 votes.

Appellee filed with the proper officers a pre-election statement of his election expenditures, regular in form, but it was filed on the seventh instead of the fifteenth day before the election, as provided in the Corrupt Practices act, section 4, chapter 13, Acts 1916; and solely because of his failure to…