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186 Ind. 332

State v. Draper

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided June 6, 1917

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1917-06-06

<p>Elections. — Corrupt Practices. — Corporation.—Indictment.—Sufficiency. — An indictment under §§7711d Burns 1914, Acts 1911 p. 288, 291, relating to corrupt practices in elections, charging the accused -with soliciting a contribution to promote the success of a principle to be voted on at a special “local option” election, is held, on the authority of the rule announced in State v. Terre Haute Brewing Company, ante 248, to have been properly quashed.</p>

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Relies on State v. Terre Haute Brewing Co.

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Affirmed · Decided 1917-06-06

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Harvey, J.

¶1This is a companion appeal to that in State v. Terre Haute Brewing Co. (1917), ante 248, 115 N. E. 772, that being a prosecution of a corporation for making a contribution, and this of appellee for soliciting said contribution to promote the success of a principle to be voted on at a special “local option” election.

¶2The State insists that the indictment charges an offense under §4, of the Corrupt Practices Act. Acts 1911 p. 288, 291, §7111d Burns 1914. To this contention the decision above referred to applies. Other sections of the Corrupt Practices Act describe specifically conduct which subjects to a penalty, even though such conduct *333is not óf a political character, and does not tend to in.•fluence the result in political contests. Such other sections have recently been held by this court to apply to local option elections.

¶3The indictment in this cause, being based solely on §4, supra, was properly quashed by the trial court, and the judgment appealed from is affirmed.

¶4Note. — Reported in 116 N. E. 422. Bribery of voters as an offense, 97 Am. Dec. 716.

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