Show CHANGE OF DOMICILE THERE will be many attempts no doubt to prove illegal voting in several of the states particularly where the contest has been close and the issue is doubtful the result cannot be changed perhaps in any anyway way by proofs of such fraud in new dew york because the majorities are too large to be overcome in that manner but prosecutions have already been begun to in that state and among them arf am the cases of forty two students of tile the union theological seminary Sem idary in the city of new york who have been indicted tor for illegal registration these students are perhaps more mistaken than criminal although they at preset presan reside in new york per permanent masot domiciles domiciled domi ciles are in other states and aad they have registered at their present resent location probably under the belief that they had bad a right to do so but they have merely changed their homes temporarily a and nd this does not give them the qualification of resi dence as required by law it has been long settled in the jurisprudence of this country t that hat temporary refi residence dence in another state or country does not change the domicile of a citizen nor deprive him of his bis right to lo vote in the place ot of his bis fixed abode abodes and ancl as lie be cannot have more than one permanent domicile so he cannot vote at more than one place and that must be where he lives when at home A student who intends to return whence he came after graduation or the termination of his studies cannot legally legall vote in any other place if however he e has bas moved for good and all he may vote so far as residence can quality qualify him wherever he settles down to dwell A man may change his doin domicile icile as many tivies times as lie he please 9 but jf f he be intends to stay but temporarily that does not make hima him a resident in either place the intent is what governs in this matter and as the intent is the essence of arii crime ne if these students did not intend to violate the law although they may have intended to go home after finish ing their studies and this can be made clear to the court it is not probable that they will be severely punished |