Ex parte Perkins’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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1. ““The jurisdiction of the federal courts in the enforcement of these statutes depends altogether on something having been done or omitted which has affected, or might affect, the result of an election for a representative in congress. The facts stated in the affidavit, in connection with the admissions of counsel in the course of the argument, show that the result of the election was not affected, unless it was by the mutilation of the tally papers, solely and exclusively in the statements of the vote for coronel and criminal judge. It is not pretended that the tally papers were mutilated, changed, or forged in any other respect, or that any of the tally papers, poll-books, or ballots were removed from their proper place of custody. The alleged offense against the United States consists wholly of tho alterations of the statements of the votes for coroner and criminal judge, as contained in the tally papers. * * * These specific facts, stated in the affidavit, which wero admitted in the argument to be all the facts in the case, do not constitute an offense against the United States, and the commissioner was therefore without jurisdiction to conduct the examination. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Coy