People v. O'Hara

This is an appeal in a criminal case wherein the appellants were charged, tried jointly, and convicted of what may be designated in general terms as an attempted election fraud. At the opening of the trial there were 32 defendants. As to some of them final disposition of the prosecution was made pending the trial. Of the remaining defendants 22 were tried hy the jury and 4 by the court without a jury. The jury convicted 15 and acquitted 7; the court convicted 3 and acquitted 1.

It is the people’s claim that in the election recount investigation certain of the defendants altered some of the…