People v. Harrison
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 28, 1919, which affirmed a judgment rendered at an Extraordinary Trial Term for the county of New York upon a' verdict convicting the defendant of making a false return of the result of a canvass at a primary election.
1Opinion of the CourtPound, J.
The defendant, with three others, was charged in two separate counts of a joint indictment, under section 766 and under section 751, subdivision 12, of the Penal Law, with making a false statement of the results of the primary election held in the city and county of New York, on the 19th day of September, 1917, for the nomination of. mayor of the city of New York, on the Republican ticket, while the said defendant was acting as an inspector of election.
Section 766 of the Penal Law at this time read as follows:
“ An inspector or poll clerk of an .election or town meeting, who intentionally…
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