State v. Armstrong
Decision Date | 14 May 1907 |
Citation | 203 Mo. 554,102 S.W. 503 |
Parties | STATE v. ARMSTRONG. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from Criminal Court, Jackson County; B. J. Casteel, Special Judge.
Ed. Armstrong was convicted of illegal voting, and appeals. Affirmed.
This cause reaches this court by appeal on the part of the defendant from a judgment of the criminal court of Jackson county, convicting the defendant of the charge of fraudulently voting under the name and in the place of one Ben Trimble, who was a legally qualified and registered voter. The information was filed on the 27th of April, 1905, and the cause was continued until June, 1906, when Judge Wofford, the regular judge of that court, disqualified himself, and Judge Casteel was invited to try the case. The defendant was tried on the 7th of June, 1906. Upon the trial the evidence as introduced by the state tended to prove that on the 8th day of November, 1904, a general election was held in Kansas City, Mo., for the election of county and state officials; that one Ben Trimble was a duly qualified and registered voter of Kansas City, residing at 1406 East Fourteenth street, which was within the Sixth Precinct of the Ninth Ward of said city; that on said day the defendant appeared at said precinct, gave his name as Ben Trimble, asked for and procured a ballot, and returned the same to the judges, still saying that his name was Ben Trimble. Certain challengers present, having reason to believe that the defendant was not the person he claimed to be, followed him out into the alley and up behind a livery stable, where he stated to them and to the officers who went with them that his name was Ed. Armstrong. When asked if he had not voted in the name of Ben Trimble, the defendant denied the same. The defendant was arrested and taken to police headquarters, where he admitted to various persons that he had voted under the name of Ben Trimble, and thereupon made the following confession: ...
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