State ex rel. McKeever v. Cameron

*406The following opinion, was filed January 17, 1923:

The following propositions are decided in this case:

1. That it should be presumed that the voters of Washburn county had knowledge of the constitutional amendment pending at the time of the late election proposing to make sheriffs eligible for re-election.

2. If the constitutional amendment had passed, the defendant, having received the highest number of votes, would have been eligible to hold the office of sheriff for a second term.

3. It cannot be held that the votes cast for the defendant were cast in bad faith; and the fact that he was…