United States v. Molloy
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
Indictment under B,ev. St. U. S., § 5512, for fraudulent registration of voters in St. Louis, Missouri. For Missouri statute relative to registration of voters in cities of over 1,000, see Sess. Laws Mo. 1883, p. 38. There was no formal arraignment and plea.
1Opinion of the Court
Thayer, J.,
(charging jury.) If the testimony in this case satisfies yoix beyond any reasonable doubt that this defendant was a deputy recorder of voters for the Twelfth ward of this city at the registration held last September, for the November election of the year 1886, and that as such recorder of voters, having the registration books in his custody, he “knowingly and willfully,” and not merely through ignorance or inadvertence, entered therein, or caused to be entered in such books, the names of any of the-persons named in this indictment, as though they were qualified and duly registered…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad v. HorstSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Coffey v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- State v. VanhookSupreme Court of Missouri · 1885
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- Billingsley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1921
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