State v. Bedford

This-was a prosecution against appellee charging him with corrupt practices in violation of §7111k Burns 1914, §7, Acts 1913 p. 502, at a “local option” election held in Sullivan county.. The court below sustained a motion to quash, the indictment, and *298from a judgment discharging appellee, the State appeals.

The charging part of the indictment under consideration is as follows: That appellee “did then and there unlawfully and feloniously, for and in consideration of money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument and thing of value, to wit: Fifty ($0.50) cents, paid to the said William…