State v. Dunivan

PHELPS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by the State of Arizona from an order of the superior court of Maricopa County entered on July 16, 1953, quashing an information on file in the above-entitled cause charging defendant with the crime of offering and giving a bribe to one Lyle Pierce, a jockey, in connection with a horse race in a racing meet in the county of Maricopa, conducted under the provisions of the statutes of the state of Arizona.

Defendant was originally charged with the above offense on February 27, 1953, when a complaint against him was filed in West Phoenix precinct justice…