James v. Buster

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

At the August, 1929, primary election, the appellant and contestant below, F. P. James, received the highest number of votes for the Bepublican nomination for the office of sheriff of Mercer county. The' county board of election commissioners, after canvassing and tabulating the vote cast in the primary election, issued and delivered to appellant a certificate of nomination, but neither he, nor any one for him, filed it with the county court clerk of the county within the time required by law.

A few days before the general election, but before the…