Hill v. Miller

CAMPBELL, Justice.

This is an appeal of an election contest for the office of sheriff of Brazos County. The trial court found that illegal votes of sufficient number to change the outcome had been cast and declared the election void. The court of appeals reversed the judgment of the trial court and rendered a take-nothing judgment against the contestant, Howard Hill, holding that Hill had failed to prove illegality or fraud in the contested election. 698 S.W.2d 372. The court concluded that evidence of the number of illegal votes cast in the general election was not evidence of the number of…