State v. Butts
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Shawnee District Court. Information, charging defendants with a criminal offense in receiving an illegal vote while acting as judges of a legal election held in the second ward of the city of Topeka on the 3d of April, 1883. On motion of defendants, the district court of Shawnee county, at the April Term, 1883, quashed the information. The State appeals.
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Appeal from Shawnee District Court. Information, charging defendants with a criminal offense in receiving an illegal vote while acting as judges of a legal election held in the second ward of the city of Topeka on the 3d of April, 1883. On motion of defendants, the district court of Shawnee county, at the April Term, 1883, quashed the information. The State appeals. The facts, briefly, are these: Topeka is a city of the first class. ‘ The defendants were the judges at the election named. One W. C. Webb, who had resided in said second ward and had regularly voted therein for many years,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
The question in this case is as to the constitutionality of the registration act. (Laws 1879, ch. 80.) It is objected, first, that it conflicts with section 17, article 2, of the constitution — the section which requires that all laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout the state. The act in terms only applies to cities of the first and second class. The objection is not well taken. ■ It is true that the constitution directs the legislature to enact suitable registration laws; (art. 5, §4.) It may be that this…
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