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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 15,207.
    UNITED STATES v. GILLIS et al.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 44.]
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    June Term, 1812.
    Criminal Law—Corrupt Motive.
    Judges of elections are not liable to criminal prosecution, unless they have acted from a corrupt motive.
    Mr. Jones, for the United States,
    observed that it had been intimated by the court that these prosecutions could not be supported unless a corrupt motive were charged and proved; and that if such was the opinion of the court, as he could not prove such a motive. he would enter a nolle prosequi.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief' Judge.]
    
   THE COURT

(nem. con.) said that such was their opinion. Nolle prosequi entered.