Case ID: dc_2/html/0044-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. Gillis et al.
    
    Judges of elections are not liable to criminal prosecution, unless tbey have acted from a corrupt motive.
    
      Mr. Jones, Attorney 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.
    
   The Court

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