Ex parte Brassell

This is a petition to this Court by J. W. Brassell and B. L. Cole, separately and severally, for a writ of mandamus or other appropriate writ directed to Hon. J. B. Hicks as judge of the Circuit Court of Russell County, Alabama, as will be more fully set out.

On the 17th day of May 1954, petitioners filed with the State Democratic Executive Committee a contest of the nomination declared by the County Executive Committee to have resulted in favor of William R. Belcher for Place No. 1 as a candidate for the House of Representatives of Alabama from Russell County, and V. Cecil Curtis for Place…