Gambrell v. Parker

MILLIKEN, Justice.

On November 12, 1952, eight days after the general election, Billie E. Parker contested the election of Otto Gambrell to the Board of Education of the Lone Jack Independent School District of Bell County, Kentucky. The election commissioners had certified 180 votes for Parker and 182 for Gambrell. Parker alleged, as his grounds for contest, that six persons whom he named had voted illegally for Gambrell and that furthermore Gambrell was ineligible to hold the office inasmuch as he had been “convicted” of a felony within the meaning of Section 145 of the Kentucky…