Johnson v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Ford county; the Hon. Owen T. Reeves, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Charles Johnson for perjury.
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Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Ford county; the Hon. Owen T. Reeves, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Charles Johnson for perjury. The second count of the indictment, omitting the formal parts, is as follows: “ That Charles Johnson, on, etc., at, etc., at a certain election for trustees and village clerk of the village of Gibson, in said county, called and held in pursuance of law, in said village of Gibson, one Oscar Selberg having offered to vote at said election, and his said vote having been challenged by a legal voter at said election, by reason of said challenge…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
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An election was held in the village of Gibson, in the county of Ford, in this State, on the 16th day of April, 1878, for the election of trustees and town clerk. One Selberg offered his vote, and, it being challenged, it was rejected, and plaintiff in error filed an affidavit of his residence, to enable him to vote. He was afterwards indicted for perjury, tried, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. To reverse that judgment he prosecutes error.
It is insisted that the second count of the indictment under which the conviction was had is insufficient, and the court below…
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