State Ex Rel. Robinson v. Hutcheson

Solon L. Robinson and Wade H. Farmer were candidates for the office of County Judge of Bledsoe County in the general election held on August 6, 1942. On the face of the returns, as certified by the judges and officers, of election from the various voting precincts, they each received 804 votes. The election commissioners failed to have Robinson’s name printed on the official ballot and voters throughout the county wrote his name on the ballot and in some precincts used printed stickers with his name printed thereon, which were attached to the ballot and a cross mark placed opposite the name,…