Bingham v. Johnson

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hurt

Reversing.

The appellant and appellee were rival candidates for justice of the peace. Johnson was the nominee of the Republican party. He received his nomination in the regular primary election. Bingham was not nominated by any party, nor by petitioners, under section 1453, Kentucky Statutes, and his name was not printed upon the -ballots as a candidate. He depended upon the voters, who desired to support him, to write his name in the blank space left upon the official ballot for that purpose, *754and stenciling a cross in the square after his name. The…