The People v. Hrdlicka

Per Curiam :

The defendants, Fred Hrdlicka, Edward Kotek and Edward Kerstein, were found guilty by a jury in the criminal court of Cook county upon an indictment which charged that during the canvass of the votes cast at a special election on November 5, 1929, in the twenty-seventh precinct of the thirty-fourth ward, they willfully and fraudulently changed and altered certain ballots and certain markings placed on the ballots by the electors.

The election was a judicial election of twenty judges of the superior court and two judges to fill vacancies in the circuit court. Edward Grysh, Edward J.…