People ex rel. Rusch v. Kirgis

Mr. Justice Denis E. Sullivan

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction entered in the county court against Frank J. Kirgis, Steve Burns and James E. Sheehan, finding them guilty of a violation of the election law and sentencing them to one year in the county jail.

The abstract shows that on February 5,1936, a verified petition was filed in the county court of Cook county by John S. Busch, chief clerk of the board of election commissioners of Chicago, Illinois, alleging that a general election was held in Chicago on April 16, 1935, at which election…