Brown v. Moseley

I respectfully (and as always, reluctantly) dissent from at least the result of the prevailing opinion. If the defendant had been appointed subsequent to the amendment of 1952 of Section 3473 of the Code of 1942, and concéding without so deciding, that the prevailing opinion correctly holds that the amendment is constitutional, then it might be said, with some show of logic, that defendant’s term of office would not terminate until following the general election for the office of Sheriff of Kershaw County in 1954; but, under the law as it existed when the appointment was made, the time for…