Breeden v. S. C. Democratic Executive Committee

Oxner, Justice.

This is a proceeding, under a writ of certiorari, to review the action of the State Democratic Executive Committee in refusing to declare petitioner, Edward C. Breed-en, the party nominee for auditor of Marlboro County, and in declaring respondent Roy A. Freeman the nominee for said office.

*207In the first primary held on June 8, 1954, there were three candidates for the party nomination for the office of auditor of Marlboro County, but neither received a majority of the votes cast. Breeden and Freeman, the two high men, ran over in a second primary held on June 22nd. The Marlboro…