Johnson v. Howard

Ethridge, J.,

delivered a dissenting opinion.

The appellants and the appellees are all members of the republican party in the state of Mississippi. In the year 1928, prior to the republican National Convention, the appellees, being in control of the party machinery, called state, county, and precinct conventions through the state organization. The call for precinct meetings was not to assemble at the respective voting places or precincts and vote for the delegates to the county conventions, but to assemble at convenient places, and instead of being at the precincts, were at various places,…