Chenault v. Bexar County

TOM F. COLEMAN, Sr., Assigned Justice,

concurring.

I concur in the judgment rendered. However, I would hold that TEX. CONST, art. XVI, § 65, required that the election for the office of Justice of the Peace, Precinct No. One of Bexar County, Texas, be held in the years 1984 and each four years thereafter. Fishing v. El Paso County Democratic Executive Committee, 534 S.W.2d 886 (Tex.1976).

The third paragraph of § 65 requires that were there are two Justices of the Peace in a single precinct, the person elected to the place with an uneven number serve for an initial term of two years, but that…