State v. Gilman
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions by defendant. Demurrer to an indictment alleging that the defendant at Anson in the county of Somerset on the fifth day of March, 1900, at a meeting for the election of officers of said town of Anson, to wit, at its annual town' meeting for the election of the municipal officers of said town, wilfully and unlawfully did cast more than one vote at one balloting, against the peace of the state, and contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided.
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Exceptions by defendant. Demurrer to an indictment alleging that the defendant at Anson in the county of Somerset on the fifth day of March, 1900, at a meeting for the election of officers of said town of Anson, to wit, at its annual town' meeting for the election of the municipal officers of said town, wilfully and unlawfully did cast more than one vote at one balloting, against the peace of the state, and contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided. If more than one vote was cast at the meeting, it is not shown by the indictment that it was such a meeting as to make…
1Opinion of the CourtPeabody, J.
This is an indictment found by the grand jury in Somerset county against the respondent, Frank D. Gilman, for illegal voting.
It alleges that Frank D. Gilman, of Anson, in the county of Somerset and state of Maine, on the fifth day of March, A. D. 1900, at said Anson at a meeting for the election of officers of said town of *433Anson, to wit: at its annual town meeting for the election of municipal officers of said town, wilfully and unlawfully did cast more than one vote at one balloting, against the peace of the state and contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided.
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- State v. MinnickSupreme Court of Iowa · 1863
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- State v. CushingSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1940