Hooper v. Siegelman

This expedited appeal, submitted on briefs and arguments of counsel on July 1, 1980, presents the issue whether a judge, appointed to a judicial office vacated by a prior appointee, may offer for election for a full term before he has completed one year in office, and such an election be valid. Immediately upon submission and after careful consideration, we issued an order affirming the judgment below which decreed that the Appellee, Judge Hartwell B. Lutz, was lawfully elected for a six-year term in the General Election of 1978, which term commenced January 16,1979, and that the Appellee,…