McKnight v. Smith

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Stabler.

The petitioner, Ottie W. McKnight, seeks in this proceeding to have the Court by writ of certiorari review and reverse the action of the State Democratic Executive Committee in refusing to sustain petitioner’s appeal from the decision of the Florence County Executive Committee in the matter of the petitioner’s contest relative to the primary election held at Salem precinct, September 22, 1936, for magistrate of the Cowards-Salem district of that county.

In obedience to the writ, Hon. Ben T. Leppard, chairman of the State…