State v. Voorhees
State v. Voorhees
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered hjr
The indictment returned by writ of certiorari issued at the instance of the defendant charges that the defendant fraudulently and unlawfully printed and made three thousand nine hundred official sample ballots without being authorized by a proper officer, and asks that the indictment be set aside because it does not charge and is not based upon any statute, making it a crime to print more sample ballots than may be ordered. We think that a crime is charged. Section 59 of the act (Pamph. L. 1911, p. 317) requires the county clerk to furnish a sufficient number of official sample ballots. Section 68 provides that no person not authorized by the proper official shall print or malm any 'official or sample ballots or have in his possession any official ballot without being such person as is authorized to have charge or possession thereof, and the sixty-ninth section makes it a misdemeanor to violate any provision of the act.
The authorization by the county clerk, who is the designated authority to decide, to print a certain number of sample
If there was a doubt about its validity, a motion to quash should fail. Indictments are not so treated unless it is plain that they are bad (State v. Johnson, 44 Vroom 199), but the defendant would then be left to demurrer, motion in arrest of judgment or writ of error. Proctor v. State, 26 Id. 472. The motion to quash must therefore be denied. The indictment will lie remanded to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Hunterdon, to lie dealt with according to law.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- State v. HENRY MARTIN VOORHEES, PROSECUTOR
- Status
- Published