Patton v. Coates
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pulashi Circuit Court. Hon. F. T. Vaughan, Circuit Judge. 1. Intimidation of voters existed sufficient to change, or make uncertain the result of the election. McCrary on Elections, secs. 416, 417, 418, 419, 422, 424, 425, 426, 429, 432. 2. Frauds were perpetrated by persons other than officers •of election, sufficient to change or make uncertain the result.
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APPEAL from Pulashi Circuit Court. Hon. F. T. Vaughan, Circuit Judge. 1. Intimidation of voters existed sufficient to change, or make uncertain the result of the election. McCrary on Elections, secs. 416, 417, 418, 419, 422, 424, 425, 426, 429, 432. 2. Frauds were perpetrated by persons other than officers •of election, sufficient to change or make uncertain the result. Ib., secs. 441 — 2, 365 — 6, 387, 391 — 2—3; Mann v, Cassidy, 1 Brew., p. 1; 2 Id., p. 40, 49, 53. 3. The conduct of the judges in the sixth ward amounted to legal, if not actual, fraud, and was such as to destroy the…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION.
Eakin, J,
The general election law of January 23d,1875„ (p.92, acts 1874 and 1875), makes it the duty of thecounty court, at the last term held more than thirty days before-any general election, to appoint three jndges of election in, each township, to continue in office until the next general election ; and provides that the judges shall select two persons to act as clerks. If the county court should fail to-appoint them, or if those appointed should fail to act, then, the voters, when assembled, may appoint them, (secs, 3, 4- and 5), It is made the duty of the county clerk in…
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