s of the United States for the State of New York at large, and
for a candidate for Representative in the Congress of the United States
for said twenty-ninth Congressional District, without having a lawful
right to vote in said first election district (the said Susan B. Anthony
being then and there a person of the female sex,) as she, the said
Susan B. Anthony then and there well knew, contrary to the form of the
statute of the United States of America in such case made and provided,
and against the peace of the United States of America and their dignity.

RICHARD CROWLEY,

Attorney of the United States,
For the Northern District Of New York.

(Endorsed.) Jan. 24, 1873.

Pleads not guilty.

RICHARD CROWLEY,
U.S. Attorney.

UNITED STATES
CIRCUIT COURT.

Northern District of New York.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

_vs._

SUSAN B. ANTHONY.

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HON. WARD HUNT, Presiding.

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APPEARANCES.

For the United States:

HON. RICHARD CROWLEY.
U.S. District Attorney.

For the Defendant:

HON. HENRY R. SELDEN.
JOHN VAN VOORHIS, ESQ.

Tried at Canandaigua. Tuesday and Wednesday, June 17th and 18th, 1873,
before Hon. Ward Hunt, and a jury.

Jury impanneled at 2:30 P.M.

MR. CROWLEY opened the case as follows:

_May it please the Court and Gentlemen of the Jury_:

On the 5th of November, 1872, there was held in this State, as well as
in other States of the Union, a general election for different officers,
and among those, for candidates to represent several districts of this
State in the Congress of the United States. The defendant, Miss Susan B.
Anthony, at that time resided in the city of Rochester, in the county of
Monroe, Northern District of New York, and upon the 5th day of November,
1872, she voted for a representative in the Congress of the United
States, to represent the 29th Congressional District of this State, and
also for a representative at large for the State of New York, to
represent the State in the Congress of the United States. At that time
she was a woman. I suppose there will be no question about that. The
question in this case, if there be a question of fact about it at all,
will, in my judgment, be rather a question of law than one of fact. I
suppose that there will be no question of fact, substantially, in the
case when all of the