determined. The indictment stated that:

Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh, and William B. Hall, Inspectors
of Election in and for said first election district of said
eight ward of said city of Rochester, etc., did then and there
knowingly and willfully register as a voter of said District, one
Susan B. Anthony, she, said Susan B. Anthony, then and there not
being entitled to be registered as a voter of said District in
that she, said Susan B. Anthony was then and there a person of
the female sex, 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.

Although the above indictment may have been legal in form, it clearly
proved the inadequacy of man alone to frame just laws, holding, as it
did, Susan B. Anthony to be "then and there a person of the female
sex, contrary to the form of the statutes of the United States of
America," etc.

Witnesses were first called on behalf of the United States; during
whose examination it was again conceded that the women named in the
indictment were women on the 5th day of November, 1872, thus again
clearly showing the animus of these trials to be against sex--making
sex a crime in the eye of United States laws. While the right to
testify in her own behalf was denied to Miss Anthony it was granted to
the Inspectors of election.

Beverly W. Jones, and each of the other defendants, was duly sworn as
a witness in his own behalf, and Susan B. Anthony was called as a
witness in behalf of the defendants.

Miss ANTHONY: I would like to know if the testimony of a person
who has been convicted of a crime can be taken?

The COURT: They call you as a witness, madam.

The witness, having been duly affirmed, testified as follows:

_Examined by_ Mr. VAN VOORHIS:

_Q._ Miss Anthony, I want you to state what occurred at the Board
of Registry, when your name was registered? _A._ That would be
very tedious, for it was full an hour.

_Q._ State generally what was done, or what occupied that hour's
time?

Objected to.

_Q._ Well, was the question of your right to be registered a
subject of discussion there? _A._ It was.

_Q._ By and between whom? _A._ Between the supervisors, the
inspectors, and myself.

_Q._ State, if you please, what occurred when