People v. Lafaro

The defendant has been indicted and convicted upon a charge of bribing a public officer. The indictment alleges that the defendant did offer and give to a police officer of the village of Waverly, in the county of Tioga, a sum of money “ with intention thereby to influence the aforesaid public officer in respect to his acts and decisions in the exercise of his duties and functions in _that he, the said Carmelo Lafaro, did then and there ask the said public officer, in consideration of said bribe, to refrain from' instituting a criminal proceeding against the said Carmelo Lafaro in the Federal…