Hamlin v. State

The appellants who were two of the judges of election in the sixth precinct of the eighteenth ward of the City of Baltimore at the Congressional Election in November, 1886, were indicted for violating the election laws. The indictment contains two counts. The first charges that they wilfully and knowingly received an illegal vote at that election, and the second, that they unlawfully, wilfully and fraudulently certified to the Grand Jury, that they did not know and had no means to believe that any violation of the election laws had been committed at said election, whereas, in truth and in…