Wright v. Heflin

This is a contest for the Democratic nomination for the office bf sheriff of Winn parish. The contestant has appealed from a judgment in favor of the contestee. The official returns gave the defendant a majority of 115 votes. At the instance of the plaintiff and .over the objection of the defendant, the court ordered the ballot boxes opened and the ballots recounted; the result being to increase the defendant’s majority to 118 votes.

It is mutually conceded that it is not important now, for the purpose of this appeal, whether we take the defendant’s prima facie *768or initial majority to be 115,…