Colbath v. Adams

ROBERTS, Justice.

Petitioner filed in this court a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Secretary of State to accept his qualification papers and fee to enable him to become a candidate for the office of Public Defender of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. He contends that the Public Defender in the Fifteenth Circuit must be elected in a general election in November, 1966 pursuant to Florida Statute 100.041, F.S.A. The alternative writ issued and the return of the respondent posed several minor defenses, but in the main denies that the officer in question should be elected in the…