Curran v. Taylor
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 98-PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM WARREN CIRCUIT COURT. The word “election,” as used in the statute against bribery, means only the choice of officers and does not include the decision of questions submitted to the voters. (Gen. Stats., pp. 506 and 529; Acts 1887-8, vol. 2, p. 1188; Marshall v. Donovan, 10 Bush, 694; Hall v. Marshall, 80 Ky., 558; Acts 1883-4, vol. 1, p. 754; 7 Ky.
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Case 98-PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM WARREN CIRCUIT COURT. The word “election,” as used in the statute against bribery, means only the choice of officers and does not include the decision of questions submitted to the voters. (Gen. Stats., pp. 506 and 529; Acts 1887-8, vol. 2, p. 1188; Marshall v. Donovan, 10 Bush, 694; Hall v. Marshall, 80 Ky., 558; Acts 1883-4, vol. 1, p. 754; 7 Ky. Law Rep., 292.) 1. A vote upon a railroad tax is an “election” within the meaning of the statute against bribery. (Gen. Stats., chap. 33, art. 12, sec. 11, sub-sec. 1; Idem, sec. 17; Hall, &c., v. Marshall, 80…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Holt
The appellee, Silas Taylor, a peace officer, together with his summoned assistant, the appellee, W. B. Baker, arrested the appellant, T. P. Curran, for buying a vote in the officer’s presence in an election to take the sense of the voters of Warren county as to making a county subscription to the stock of the Henderson State Line Railroad. He sued them for false arrest and imprisonment.
The answer is a plea of confession and avoidance. It admits the arrest, but justified upon the ground that the appellant had committed the offense of bribery. A trial was had, resulting in a verdict for the…
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