People v. Newsome
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the Third District; — heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery county; the Hon. William B. Wright, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
Plaintiff in error was convicted upon an indictment charging violation of section 86 of the general Election law of 1872. (Hurd’s Stat. 1917, p. 1261.) He was sentenced on the verdict to confinement in the county jail for 260 days and to pay the costs. That section provides, among other things: "If any judge of any election * * * be guilty of any fraud, corruption, partiality or manifest misbehavior, * * * he shall, on conviction thereof,” be fined or imprisoned in the county jail. The judgment of"conviction was affirmed by the Appellate Court for the Third District. This writ of error has…
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