Gordon v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Henry. Tried before Hon. J. McCaleb Wiley. The opinion states the case. Honest ignorance of fact, without fault on defendant’s part, will excuse what would otherwise be an offence. It negatives a criminal intent. 2 Bish. Crim. Law, § 276. cited Schuster v. The State, 48 Ala. 199.
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
This indictment is founded on the fortieth section of the statute, approved April 22, 1878, entitled “ An act to regulate elections in the State of Alabama,” which declares : “ That any person voting more than once at any election held in this State, or depositing more than one ballot for the same office at such election, or is guilty of any other kind of illegal or fraudulent voting, shall be deemed guilty of a felony,” &c. Pamph. Acts 1872-3, p. 25. The first count charges that the appellant, not being of the age of twenty-one years, voted at the last general election in this State. The *309seco…
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