Walker v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

At the regular 1937 election the appellant and one of the defendants below, Gr. C. Walker, was elected sheriff of McCreary county, qualifying and taking the office on the first Monday in January, 1938. One of the ap pellees and sole plaintiff below, T. P. Roundtree, was tbe regular elected sheriff of the county for the preceding term, which expired on the same day that Walker qualified. Upon retiring from office he executed the necessary bonds required by law to qualify him as tax collector of uncollected taxes for the last year of his term, which…