Legal Opinion

McKinney v. O'Connor

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1861PublishedCited by 33 opinions

Appeal from Victoria. Tried below before the Hon. Eieldmg Jones. This was a proceeding instituted under the statute by the appellee to contest the right of the appellant to the office of District Judge of the 14th Judicial District, composed of Nueces and other counties, for which office an election was held at the general election in August, 1860.

1Opinion of the CourtRoberts, J.

In the counties composing the Fourteenth Judi- 1 cial District, an election for the office of District Judge was holden on the 6th day of August, 1860. ■ By the returns made to the office of the Secretary of State from the respective counties in said district, appellee, O’Connor, received 676 votes, and appellant, McKinney, received 483 votes, and other candidates received a smaller number. These returns are in due form, except as to 22 votes given to O’Connor at a place which had not been designated as an election precinct by the County Court of Nueces county, and as to which there is a…

2Cited by33 opinions

  1. Ex Parte TowlesTexas Supreme Court · 1877
  2. Gilleland v. SchuylerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1872
  3. State ex rel. Jennett v. OwensTexas Supreme Court · 1885
  4. Fowler v. State ex rel. GeorgeTexas Supreme Court · 1887
  5. Weatherford v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1893

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