State v. Wappenstein

The defendant was indicted for the crime of asking for, accepting, and receiving a bribe. The indictment charged that the defendant, being chief of the police department of the city of Seattle, asked for, accepted and received from Gideon Tupper and C. J. Gerald $1,000, as coiripensatioii, gratuity, reward and bribe, upon an agreement, understanding, and promise that he would thereby be influenced, governed, and controlled in the discharge of his official duty and action upon matters then pending which might be brought before him, and in consideration thereof and of that agreement, did, in…