United States v. Nicholson
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana
This was an indictment [against Daniel Nicholson and others], under section 5513 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, against three commissioners of election appointed under the state law to conduct an election for member of congress, state, parish and ward officers, in one of the wards of Caddo parish, in the state of Louisiana. The charge of the court can be understood without any recital of the facts.
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, Circuit Judge
(charging jury). The defendants in this case are charged in an indictment containing two counts. The first count alleges that at the general election for members of congress, held on the fifth of November, 1S78, in the Fourth congressional district, in this state, two of the *144defendants, to wit, Daniel Nicholson and Samuel Fells, were the commissioners of said election, and the other defendant, Thomas B. Chase, was clerk thereof; and that they, the officers of such election, did unlawfully, feloniously and with intent to affect the result of such election, furnish for use at the said election…
2Cited by2 opinions
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