Purcell v. Lindsey

Relator Graham Purcell has applied for a mandamus commanding the State Democratic Executive Committee (Jim D. Lindsey, et al) to cause his name “to be certified to the several chairmen of the county executive committees of the Democratic Party as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the office of Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals of the State of Texas before the 1958 Democratic Party Primary.”

The Committee refused to certify Purcell’s name because he was not licensed to practice law (according to the records of this Court) until August 19, 1949 and hence at the time of the…