State v. Shanks
Indiana Supreme Court
From Fountain Circuit Court, I. E. Schoonover, Judge. Prosecution by the State of Indiana against Moses Shanks. From a judgment quashing the affidavit, the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSpencer, J.
Appellee was charged by affidavit with violating the criminal laws providing penalties against corrupt voting. The court sustained a motion to quash the affidavit, and discharged appellee.
Error assigned and not waived is sustaining appellee’s motion to quash the affidavit charging him with unlawfully and knowingly voting in a precinct and ward in which he did not reside. The affidavit was quashed on the grounds that the statute on which the prosecution was based restricted the offense charged to voting without legal qualifica*332tions in general elections, and not to local option or special…
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