Oglesby v. Sigman
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Tunica County. Hon. Samuel Powell, Judge. On the 9th of December, 1880, Ira D. Oglesby, district attorney for the Third Judicial District, filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Tunica County for a mandamus to compel the commissioners of election in that county to reassemble and recanvass the returns made to them by the inspectors of election of the votes cast at the election on the 2d of November, 1880, for a member of Congress for the…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Tunica County. Hon. Samuel Powell, Judge. On the 9th of December, 1880, Ira D. Oglesby, district attorney for the Third Judicial District, filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Tunica County for a mandamus to compel the commissioners of election in that county to reassemble and recanvass the returns made to them by the inspectors of election of the votes cast at the election on the 2d of November, 1880, for a member of Congress for the Sixth Congressional District, and to make a statement of the result of such recanvass to the secretary of state within a…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
This case presents for adjudication three questions, viz. : 1. Whether the commissioners of election have the rightto reject illegal ballots cast, aud counted by the inspectors of election, and returned to them with the statement of the result at the precincts. 2. Whether the ballots which the commissioners of election for Tunica County refused to reject should have been rejected by them as being illegal, for having on them a device or mark by which one may be known or distinguished from another. 3. Whether the action of the commissioners was final, or whether they may be required by mandamus…
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