Commonwealth v. Kunzmann
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writ of error to the Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia county, upon a judgment for defendant, entered by said court upon a demurrer to a bill of indictment against said defendant for illegal voting.
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Writ of error to the Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia county, upon a judgment for defendant, entered by said court upon a demurrer to a bill of indictment against said defendant for illegal voting. The bill of indictment charged, that according to the 43d section of an Act of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth, entitled “An Act relating to the Elections of this Commonwealth,” passed the 2d of July 1839, an election was held at Camp Kalorama, in the District of Columbia, on the second Tuesday of October 1861, for city and county officers for the city and county of Philadelphia. That…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Woodward, J.
The indictment sets forth that a general election was held in Pennsylvania on the second Tuesday of' October 1861, under the laws of the Commonwealth, and that in pursuance of the 43d section of the General Election Law of 2d July 1839, an election was held at Camp Kalorama, in the District of Columbia, on that day, by the captain and lieutenant of Company I, of the 21st Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, the said company being then and there a detachment of militia and a corps of volunteers in actual service, under a requisition from…
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