Wattles v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Lapeer Circuit. Tbe defendants were tried and convicted on an- information, of wbicb tbe following is a copy: Charles M. Walker, Prosecuting Attorney for the county of Lapeer aforesaid, for and in behalf of The People of the State of Michigan, comes into said Court in the December term thereof, * A. D. 1860, and gives it here to understand and be informed that heretofore, to-wit, on the 6th day of November, 1860, at North Branch, in said county, one Abraham Moyer…
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Error to Lapeer Circuit. Tbe defendants were tried and convicted on an- information, of wbicb tbe following is a copy: Charles M. Walker, Prosecuting Attorney for the county of Lapeer aforesaid, for and in behalf of The People of the State of Michigan, comes into said Court in the December term thereof, * A. D. 1860, and gives it here to understand and be informed that heretofore, to-wit, on the 6th day of November, 1860, at North Branch, in said county, one Abraham Moyer appeared before David C. Wattles, Isaiah Butler and John Skym, who were then and there acting as a Board of Inspectors" of…
1Opinion of the Court
CiiRTSiiMrcv J.:
The defendants, who were inspectors of election for the township of North Bran eh, in the county of Lapeer, at the general election for the year 1860, were tried in -the -Circuit Court for that, cormtyj and convicted upon *448an information charging, or intended to charge them with a breach oí duty in neglecting and refusing to administer to one Abraham Moyer (offering to vote at that election) the citizen’s oath, being the first oath provided for in the twenty-fifth section of the act of 1851. — Sec. 25, Ch. 6, of Comp. L.
Exceptions were taken on the trial to the. admission of…
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