Commonwealth ex rel. Hancock v. Marshall

GANT, Judge.

The issue on appeal is whether the appel-lee, William G. Marshall, forfeited his elected office as a member on the Board of the Henderson City Independent School District because certain school employees or students made purchases of merchandise from a drugstore of which he was an officer, employee and majority stockholder.

The appellee was appointed to fulfill a vacancy on the Board of Education in May of 1968 and he was elected to the same office for a four-year term in November of that same year and was re-elected to another four-year term in 1972. During his tenure in office…