State Ex Rel. McLeod v. West

The pronouncement of the Supreme Court of the United States in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533, 84 S. Ct. 1362, 12 L. Ed. (2d) 506, that the Constitution of the United States requires the apportionment of membership in both *246branches of bicameral state legislatures on a substantially equal population. basis, was the death knell of the South Carolina Senate as apportioned under Article III, Section 6, of the Constitution of South Carolina.

In an action brought in the United States District Court by Dexter O’Shields and Hazel H. O’Shields against Robert E. McNair, Governor of South Carolina, et…