Court Opinion

ID: 5631558
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 05:24:56.728085+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:37:49.161940
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Pannell, Judge,
concurring specially. I concur in the judgment of reversal but cannot concur in all the reasons given therefor in the opinion. The petition alleges irregularities which, if supported by evidence, are of sufficient magnitude to authorize a finding that they placed in doubt the results of the election. For this reason, it is my opinion that the general demurrer to the petition was erroneously sustained. I cannot concur in the holding that fraud is alleged in the petition. Section 34-1705, subparagraph (d) of the Georgia .Election Code (Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., pp. 26, 179) provides that, “A statement of the grounds of contest shall not be rejected, nor the proceedings dismissed by any court, for want of form, if the grounds of contest are alleged with such certainty as will advise the defendant of the particular proceeding or cause for which the primary or election is contested.” In view of this Code section, it is my opinion that the special demurrers were erroneously sustained, although this ruling might have been otherwise in the absence of this Code provision.