State ex rel. Robb v. Caperton

MILLER, Justice:

In this original proceeding for a writ of mandamus, the relator, Richard A. Robb, Chairman of the Kanawha County Republican Executive Committee, seeks to have us compel the respondent, the Honorable W. Gaston Caperton III, Governor of the State of West Virginia, to issue a directive of election under Section 7 of Article VIII of the West Virginia Constitution. The relator states that a vacancy exists in the office of *494circuit judge of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County.1 It is the relator’s position that the vacancy should be filled at the next general election, which is…