UNITED STATES v. BREWER

No. 1178.

139 U.S. 278 (1891)

UNITED STATES v. BREWER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 23, 1891.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General for plaintiff. Mr. Attorney General was on the brief.

Mr. Julius A. Taylor for defendants submitted on his brief.


MR. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an indictment against three persons, found in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee, under section 5515 of the Revised Statutes.

That section, with its punctuation, as published in the second edition of the Revised Statutes, is as follows: "SEC. 5515. Every officer of an election at which any Representative or Delegate in Congress is voted for, whether...

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