Cavanaugh

The defendant was charged by indictment with the commission of a felony. A general *675 demurrer was sustained to the indictment, and the people appealed. The prosecution is based upon an alleged violation of the purity of elections act. (Stats. 1893, p. 12.) The charging portion of the indictment alleges that defendant" did then and there willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, and knowingly give to one George Vice a certain sum of money, to wit, the sum of one hundred dollars, in lawful money of the United States of America, to induce said George Vice to procure, at a certain Republican primary election which was duly and regularly called by the Republican County Central Committee of the Republican party at Sacramento county, in the state of California, and was to be and was duly and regularly held in Sacramento county, state of California, on the twenty-fifth day of August, 1894, the election of certain persons, to wit [naming them,] as delegates to a certain Republican county convention, to be held in Sacramento city, state of California, on Tuesday, the twenty-eighth day of August, 1894, Which said convention was duly and regularly called for the purpose of nominating candidates…