McHenry v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. •William H. Hardy, Judge. The appellants, Gr. A. McHenry and E. M. Barber, having been adjudge guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to pay a fine and to be imprisoned in the county jail, appealed to the supreme court. An election was held under ch. 167, p. 185, Laws 1906, providing for the submission to the voters of a designated part of Harrison county the question of a division of the county into two court districts.
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From the circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. •William H. Hardy, Judge. The appellants, Gr. A. McHenry and E. M. Barber, having been adjudge guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to pay a fine and to be imprisoned in the county jail, appealed to the supreme court. An election was held under ch. 167, p. 185, Laws 1906, providing for the submission to the voters of a designated part of Harrison county the question of a division of the county into two court districts. The election commissioners met and canvassed the returns of the election, and claimed that they had certified the returns…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
In the case of Native Lumber Co. v. Board of Supervisors of Harrison County, 89 Miss., 171; s.c., 42 South., 665, we held that the chancery court had no jurisdiction to entertain a bill for an injunction the obvious “ purpose of which was to have the chancery court convert itself into a canvassing board for the purpose of canvassing the vote in an election and deciding *571whether a county should be divided into two districts or not, and declaring the result, and decreeing that the election had not been carried.” 'And we stressed the point in the opinion in that ease that these matters were all…
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