Word v. Sykes
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Monroe County. Hon. J. W. Buchanan, Judge. Contestant’s petition alleges the holding of an election for sheriff of Monroe County, November 6, 1883, at which Sykes was the candidate of the Democratic party and the contestant was the candidate of the “ True Democratic party.”
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Monroe County. Hon. J. W. Buchanan, Judge. Contestant’s petition alleges the holding of an election for sheriff of Monroe County, November 6, 1883, at which Sykes was the candidate of the Democratic party and the contestant was the candidate of the “ True Democratic party.” Petition further alleges that by conspiring between Sykes and the Democratic executive committee the State board of election commissioners were induced to appoint three Democrats, friends and partisans of Sykes, election commissioners for Monroe County, who appointed Democrats and. friends…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, J.
This is a contest under § 150 of Code of 1880 over the question *662of who received the greatest number of legal votes for the office of sheriff of Monroe County on the 6th day of November, 1883.
' The petition contains the most minute as well as sweeping charges of fraud at said election upon the part of all connected with it, most of which are as specifically denied, but as to some of which demurrers only were interposed.
As the case must go back for a new trial, we shall allude only to such questions as must necessarily be decided, since it seems to us that the governing principles underlying…
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