People v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

On September 26, 1921, an information was filed in the county court of Cook county against plaintiff in error, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, charging it with violating section 25 of an act entitled “An act to provide for the printing and distribution of ballots at public expense, and for the nomination of candidates for public offices, to regulate the manner of holding elections, and to enforce the secrecy of the ballot,” approved June 22, 1891, in force July 1, 1891. (Hurd’s Stat. 1917, p. 1341.) The information charged that on June 6, 1921, John E. Turney, an employee…