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SOUTH v. PETERS

No. 724.

339 U.S. 276 (1950)

70 S.Ct. 641

94 L.Ed. 834

SOUTH ET AL. v. PETERS, CHAIRMAN OF THE GEORGIA STATE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 17, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hamilton Douglas, Jr. for appellants.

Eugene Cook, Attorney General of Georgia, M. H. Blackshear, Assistant Attorney General, M. F. Goldstein and B. D. Murphy for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

The Georgia statute which appellants attack as violative of the Fourteenth and Seventeenth Amendments provides that county unit votes shall determine the outcome of a primary election.1 Each county is allotted a number of unit votes, ranging from six for the eight most populous counties, to two for most of the counties. The candidate who receives the highest popular vote in the county...

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