State Ex Rel. Muirhead v. STATE BD. OF ELEC. COM'RS

259 So.2d 698 (1972)

STATE of Mississippi, on relation of Jean D. MUIRHEAD

v.

STATE BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS and James Donald Spann.

No. 46794.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 20, 1972.

Rehearing Denied April 10, 1972.

Merrida P. Coxwell, Jackson, for appellant.

Sullivan, Sullivan & Keyes, Jackson, A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by W.D. Coleman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for State Board of Election Commissioners.

RODGERS, Presiding Justice.

This litigation began as a petition in the nature of an application for a writ of quo warranto to determine who is entitled to hold the office of Senator of…