Leslie County v. Hensley, Jailer

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Reversing.

At the regular election in 1937 the appellee, Thomas T. Hensley, was elected to the office of jailer of Leslie County, taking his office at the first of the year 1938. On April 30, 1937 — more than six months before the general election at which appellee was elected to his office, and more than three months before the primary election in August of that year when he received the nomination of his party as its candidate for that office— the fiscal court of the county made an order duly entered and signed on its order book, fixing the salary…