Owens v. State

The appellants were indicted, tried, and convicted, for the offense of having conspired and combined together, to make false and fraudulent returns of votes .cast at a municipal election, held in the City of Baltimore on the 27th of Oct., 1886. The three appellants first named in the indictment were judges at said election, and the two last named were clerks. The indictment charges that they “willfully, fraudulently, and unlawfully did conspire, combine, confederate and agree together, to fraudulently count and return large numbers of illegal votes cast at said election, in said seventh…