People v. Rourke

The defendant, Thomas J. Rourke, was indicted on the 23d of June, 1882, by a grand jury of the court of sessions of Albany county, under section 14 of chapter 576 of the Laws of 1881, the accusation being that he aided and abetted sundry persons, not legal voters, in procuring their names to be registered as legal and qualified voters in the southern election district of the seventh ward of the city of Albany.

While the term of the court of sessions of Albany county, at which the indictment was found, was being held, upon an affidavit declaring that grave and difficult legal questions would…