State v. Lucero

BICKLEY, Justice.

Appellant (defendant) was tried and convicted on an information containing three counts; the first and third thereof charging the making of false entries in the poll books used in the primary election held in San Miguel County in 1942. The penalty for this offense as defined in 1941 Comp.Sec. 56-508 is imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than five years. The second count charged that the defendant being an election official permitted fraudulent voting. This offense is described in 1941 Comp. Sec. 56-519, and the penalty therefor is a…