State v. Coleman State v. Piercy

Each of these causes involved a prosecution for the violation of the Indiana Election Code, This Code was adopted in 1945 and is Chapter 208 of the Acts of the Indiana General Assembly of that year and is §§ 29-2801 to 29-6003, Burns’-1933 (1946 Supp.).

In Cause No. 28442 the appellee, Slathan Coleman, was indicted in two counts. The first count- of this indictment charged the appellee with unlawfully entering and remaining in the voting room in election Precinct Five of the Seventh Ward in the City of' Indianapolis,.during the primary election held May 7, 1946, contrary to that provision of…