Pace v. Hickey

This is an election contest. In the 1962 general election the appellant, the Democratic nominee for the office of Sheriff of Marion County, was opposed by the appellee, a write-in candidate. The appellee was certified to have been the winner by a vote of 969 to 961. This is an appeal from a judgment upholding that certification. We are presented with only two questions, both involving the use of printed stickers in behalf of the write-in candidate.

All the facts were stipulated. Before the election the appellee arranged for the printing and distribution throughout the county of stickers…