HINDS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COM. v. Muirhead

259 So.2d 692 (1972)

HINDS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, James Ditto, Chairman, Respondent-Appellant,

v.

Mrs. Jean D. MUIRHEAD, Petitioner-Appellee.

No. 46716.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 20, 1972.

Rehearing Denied April 10, 1972.

Barnett, Montgomery, McClintock & Cunningham, Jackson, for appellant.

Merrida P. Coxwell, Jackson, for appellee.

PATTERSON, Justice:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County wherein a writ of mandamus was directed to the Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee commanding it to certify Mrs. Jean Muirhead as a…