State Ex Rel. Jackson v. Gray

George B. Jackson, Edward Southworth, and Ethel Norman, alleging that they were nominees of the Communist Party for the offices of Presidential Elector, Governor and United States Senator, respectively, obtained a rule nisi directed to R.A. Gray, the Secretary of State of the State of Florida, to show cause why an alternative writ of mandamus should not be issued requiring him to show cause why he should not certify to Boards of County Commissioners of the several counties of the State of Florida the names of the relators with the offices to which they had been nominated in order that the…