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Kay Cunningham

The Marlin Democrat
Marlin, Texas, Thursday,  February 18, 1904

NO EVIDENCE TO CONVICT
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Last Cases For Alleged Illegal
Voting Dismissed
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     The cases against Dudley Hunt and Charles, charged with violating the election laws in the late prohibition elector have been dismissed by the county attorney.  These cases with two others, for same offense, were based upon indictments returned by the grand jury last August, after a searching investigation in the public prints upon the heels of the election in July last.
     The charges being made it was desire of all that the matter be sifted to the bottom and the guilty ones, if any, brought to justice.  The grand jury, composed of good citizens, proceeded in investigate and were ably assisted by the county attorney and by N. J. Lewillyn Esq., was employed by the prohibition committee to assist in ferretting out the alleged evil doers.  The poll tax lists and the voting lists were carefully compared and after much arduous labor, four indictments were returned.
     In two cases the defendants were able to show at once to the complete satisfaction of the attorney and the court that a charge could not rest against them even for a technical violation of the law and the charges against them were promptly dismissed.
     In the other two cases, Mr. Hunt a prominent and respected business man of Rosebud and the other, Nelson, a negro loving at Highbank, that there might have been some unintentional irregularity in their voting, there was absolutely nothing in the evidence at hand, or prospective, upon which the state could possibly, hope to secure a conviction.  Therefore the cases were dismissed from the docket.

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