State v. Highfield

Rodney, J.,

delivering the majority opinion in the court below:

The relator contends that the vacancy happening within two months before the general election, that the appointee of the Governor would hold until the second general election and that the successor to Isaac R. Brown, Sr., should have been elected at the general election in November, 1928, and that Harry Smith, having received the greater number of votes at this election, should be declared the Register of Wills.

The question involved in this case. is a very narrow, but exceedingly interesting, one.

*275Article 3, § 22, of the…