Wood v. State Ex Rel. Gillespie

A'petition for a writ of mandamus was filed by the district attorney, attacking the validity of the congressional redistricting act of the Legislature of 1932, under House Bill No. 197. The basis of the attack is that the third and seventh congressional districts as laid out in said act do not conform to the provisions of section 3, chapter 5, Act of Congress 1911, 37 Stat. 11 (2 U. S. C. A., sec. 3), which requires or directs that the several districts shall be composed of a contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The prayer of…