People v. Dean

Campbell J.

Defendant was prosecuted for illegal voting; he, as alleged, not being within the constitutional provisions regulating the *414qualifications of voters. Two propositions were discussed on the trial, and charges were asked or made upon both of them; first, whether a person of less than one-half of African blood was white, within the meaning of the Constitution; second, whether one of not more than one-sixteenth African blood was white. The Circuit Judge charged against the prisoner on both points, and exceptions are taken to his rulings.

A decision of the second question would probably,…