Briggs v. Gautier

This is an appeal from the decision of a special court or tribunal organized under Section 15, subsections (b) and (c) of Chapter 19, Laws Ex. Session 1935, known as the Corrupt Practices Act, and involves the question of whether the general primary election held on August 3, 1943, was a valid election insofar as the candidacies of the appellant and appellee for the Democratic nomination as a member of the board of supervisors from District Number 3 in Jackson County, Mississippi, are concerned, they being the only candidates for said office and the contest being limited to the South…