Flannery v. Shanks

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

The appellant, L. T. Flannery, and appellee, Tillman Shanks, were candidates, at the primary election of August 2, 1913, for the Republican nomination for the office of sheriff in the county of Lee. The board of election commissioners of that county met August 5th and began the work of convassing the votes for the purpose of ascertaining who, of the candidates voted for in the primary election, had been nominated, but did not complete the count until August 6th, on which day it was ascertained by them that appellant Flannery had, by a majority of…