Staples v. Gilmer

*616The constitutionality of an Act of the 1944 Extra Session of the General Assembly, known as Chapter 1, approved on December 16, 1944, has been challenged. This Act in general provides for submitting to the qualified electors the question whether there shall be a constitutional convention to make such revisions and amendments to the suffrage provisions of the Constitution of Virginia as are necessary to remove certain registration and poll tax requirements which are obstacles to voting by members of the armed forces.

On January 17, 1945, after hearing argument of counsel, and after full…