NEW HAMPSHIRE BAR ASS'N v. LABELLE

No. 5856.

109 N.H. 184 (1968)

NEW HAMPSHIRE BAR ASSOCIATION v. DANIEL I. LABELLE & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided October 4, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Nixon and Douglas S. Hatfield, Jr. (orally), for the plaintiff.

George S. Pappagianis, Attorney General (by brief and orally), for defendant, Robert L. Stark, Secretary of State.

Defendant, Daniel I. LaBelle, filed no brief.


KENISON, C. J.

The questions presented in this case are whether a layman is a qualified candidate to run for the office of county attorney and, if not, whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to order the Secretary of State to remove his name from the November 1968 general election ballot.

The principal facts are not in dispute. The defendant, LaBelle, was the successful candidate in the primary for the office of county attorney for Strafford County on...

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