State v. Clark
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Benton District Court. — IIon. Gf. W. Burn-ham, Judge. The defendants, Edwin Clark and J. B. Story, were convicted of the offense of refusing, as judges of election, to receive a vote which was duly tendered, and from a judgment which required each of them to pay a fine of twenty dollars and costs they appealed.—
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
On the eleventh day of March, 1895, an election was held in independent district No. 7 of Jackson township, in the county of Benton, for the purpose of choosing a school director, and the defendants were judges of the election. The indictment charges that at that election they wilfully refused the vote of one J. C. Shaw, -who insisted that he was entitled to vote, and offered to make oath to his qualifications as a voter, and wilfully refused to administer the oath which Shaw offered to take. It appears that.Shaw was of foreign birth; that he came to this country when about three years of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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