Page:Susan B. Anthony petition for remission of fine.djvu/3

 pleaded not guilty, and the trial of the issue thus joined, took place at the Circuit Court in Canandaigua, in the county of Ontario, before the Honorable Ward Hunt, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the eighteenth day of June last.

Upon that trial, the facts of your petitioner having vot ed ing by your petitioner, and that she was a woman, were not denied, nor was it claimed on the part of the government, that your petitioner lacked any of the qualifications of a voter, unless disqualified by reason of her sex.

It was shown on behalf of your petitioner on the trial, that before voting she called upon a respectable lawyer and asked his opinion whether she had a right to vote, and he