State v. . Leeper

CONNOR, J., dissenting arguendo; WALKER, J., concurs in the dissenting opinion. The defendants, who are county commissioners of Gaston County, were indicted in the following bill:

The jurors for the State, upon their oaths, present: That John F. Leeper, J. W. Kendrick, O. G. Falls, A. R. Anders, J. C. Puett, and R. K. Davenport, commissioners of Gaston County, N.C. were duly elected commissioners of Gaston County at the general election held in the year 1906 for members of the General Assembly and other officers required by law to be elected at that time in Gaston County, N.C. that they were…