Carroll v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the violation of article 227, P. C., 1925, which reads as follows: “Any judge or clerk of an election, chairman or member of a party executive committee, or officer of a primary, special or general election, who wilfully makes any false canvass of the votes cast at such election, or a false statement of the result of a canvass of the ballots cast shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years.”

The penalty assessed against the appellant is confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

The criminal act averred…