Devoe v. United States

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

Mathew Devoe was tried and convicted under an indictment which charged, in substance, that he, together with Frances S. Ryan, George Stephen Hayde, and the judges and clerks of the election of November 3, 1936, in the Second Precinct of the Twelfth Ward in Kansas City, Missouri, had, on and prior to that day, conspired to injure and oppress certain citizens of the United States, namely, the qualified voters of the precinct who should vote for the Republican candidate for the office of Representative in the Congress of the United States at the General Election held that…