State Ex Rel. Ellis v. County Court of Cabell County

HaymoND, President:

These two mandamus proceedings involve the determination, upon a recount, of the result of the election between the opposing candidates for the office of prosecuting attorney of Cabell County at the general election on November 5, 1968. In one of these mandamus proceedings, instituted February 11, 1969, the petitioner, Robert O. Ellis, Jr., Republican candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, seeks a writ to require the defendants, the County Court of Cabell County and Bob E. Myers, president, and Bill Dunfee and Fred Luns-ford, commissioners, as…