State v. . Abernethy

The defendant was convicted and sentenced upon two bills of indictment charging him with (1) conspiring with certain persons unknown to the State to interfere with, hinder, delay and obstruct the county and precinct primary election officials of Craven and Wayne counties in the proper execution of the duties required of them by law in connection with the primary election on 25 May, 1940, and (2) with the actual interference with the duties of county and precinct election officials in the primary election of 25 May, 1940, by receiving and distributing a lot of democratic primary ballots or…