Cumbest v. Commissioners of Election of Jackson County

for the Court:

On December 10, 1981, Lum Cumbest petitioned this Court for a temporary injunction restraining and prohibiting the Election Commissioners of Jackson County from holding a special election on January 5, 1982, or any other special election to fill the office of supervisor of district number one of Jackson County pending his appeal from a conviction of fraud in public office in the circuit court of Jackson County.

The respondents to this petition were the Election Commissioners of Jackson County, in their official capacities, and the State of Mississippi.1

A hearing was held on this…