State v. Moore
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Iufobmatiok filed for violating the provision of Section 7 of Article 5 of the Constitution by influencing certain persons to register as qualified voters, (No. 1 April Term, 1899). The information filed by the Attorney-General was demurred to on several grounds.
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Iufobmatiok filed for violating the provision of Section 7 of Article 5 of the Constitution by influencing certain persons to register as qualified voters, (No. 1 April Term, 1899). The information filed by the Attorney-General was demurred to on several grounds. The Attorney-General thereupon asked leave to file the following amendments to the information: “ And now to wit, this thirtieth day of October, A. D. 1899, comes Robert C. White, Attorney-General of the State of Delaware, and prays leave of the Court to file the following amendments, to wit, by adding to the first paragraph of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Lore, C. J.:
Defendant’s causes of demurrer 1, 2, 3 and 4, are to the effect, that it does not appear in and by the information, that the holding to bail and other initial proceedings in this case *315were had by or before a Judge entitled to sit in the Supreme Court in this State.
Under these causes it was insisted, that this Court of General Sessions was designated as the tribunal to try offenses under Section 7, Article 5, of the Constitution only when such cases were incepted before such a Judge; that the Constitution has designated no trial Court where cases were commenced before a Justice of…
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- Ex Parte WallSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- McMillen v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
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