Cartello v. United States

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, with two others, were indicted for violation of section 19 of the Criminal Code (section 51, title 18 U.S.C.A.) in the conduct of the general November election of 1936 in an election precinct at Kansas City, Mo. The substance of the overt acts charged was that appellants, four of them election officers and one a party worker, caused a false count, record, and return to be made and certified to the board of election commissioners by changing some thirty straight Republican ballots so as to indicate that they were voted as straight Democratic ballots. They…