Court Opinion

ID: 9530892
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:04:55.739515+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:16.800295
License: Public Domain

WILLIAMS, Vice Chief Justice
(dissenting) .
Members of the House of Representatives of the State of-Oklahoma, although state officials, represent the people living in their respective districts.
That portion of the statute quoted by the majority, at the beginning of the quotation, clearly uses the word “jurisdiction” in the sense of “geographical area.”
Then certainly the legislature, by the use thereof again in the same paragraph, yes, even in. the very same sentence, in providing that “the central committee of the political party affected, and for the jurisdiction in which the nominee was a candidate, may in writing nominate a substitute candidate; * * * ” meant the central committee of the geographical area *139in which the nominee was a candidate, or in this case, Pontotoc County. (Emphasis supplied.)
As said by the majority, “where the language of a statute is clear and its meaning is plain and unmistakable, there is no room for construction.”
I,therefore, respectfully dissent.
I am authorized to state the Mr. Justice WELCH and Mr. Justice BLACKBIRD concur in the views herein expressed.