Rhodes v. Driver
Supreme Court of Arkansas
.Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court. Felix (L Taylor, Judge. The court should have made appellees coniine their proof to the allegations and responses. 32 Ark. 553. The fraud shown to have taken place in Fletcher township, in the absence of any attempt by contestees to "purge the ballot, made it necessary to throw out the returns from that precinct. 41 Ark. 123; 61 Ark. 247: McCrary, Elections, §§ 534-7; 10 Am. & Eng. Enc.
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.Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court. Felix (L Taylor, Judge. The court should have made appellees coniine their proof to the allegations and responses. 32 Ark. 553. The fraud shown to have taken place in Fletcher township, in the absence of any attempt by contestees to "purge the ballot, made it necessary to throw out the returns from that precinct. 41 Ark. 123; 61 Ark. 247: McCrary, Elections, §§ 534-7; 10 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law, 774, 5. A poll tax receipt, to entitle the holder to vote, should be issued between the first Monday in January and the Saturday preceding’tie fifst Monday in…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
At the general election on‘the 3d day of September 1900, in Mississippi county, J. W. Bhodes was a candidate for circuit clerk, and John A. Lovewell was a candidate for sheriff, on what was called the “Independent Ticket.” C. S. Driver was a candidate for circuit clerk, and Sam Bowen for sheriff on the Democratic ticket. The general election returns showed that Driver received for clerk 910 votes, and that Bhodes received 812; that Bowen received 874 votes for sheriff, and Lovewell received 841. Driver and Bowen were accordingly declared elected to the offices, respectively, of circuit clerk…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- West v. RossSupreme Court of Missouri · 1873
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