State v. Davis
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
The defendant was indicted at this term for bribery. The indictment contained three counts. The first charging “ That Mark L. Davis, late of East Dover Hundred in the county aforesaid, on the twenty-eighth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, with force and arms at East Dover Hundred, in the county aforesaid, unlawfully, wickedly and corruptly devising, contriving and intending to tempt, seduce, bribe and corrupt one Francis H.…
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The defendant was indicted at this term for bribery. The indictment contained three counts. The first charging “ That Mark L. Davis, late of East Dover Hundred in the county aforesaid, on the twenty-eighth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, with force and arms at East Dover Hundred, in the county aforesaid, unlawfully, wickedly and corruptly devising, contriving and intending to tempt, seduce, bribe and corrupt one Francis H. Lattomus, he, the said Francis H. Lattomus, then and there being a member of the House of Representatives of the State…
1Opinion of the Court
Lore, C. J.,
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—Mark L. Davis, the defendant, is charged in this indictment with bribery, with corruptly offering an *141inducement to a fellow member of the Legislature to vote for a United States Senator.
This crime is not defined upon our statute books. Perhaps it speaks well for our little Commonwealth that heretofore the Legislature has not found it necessary to place upon the statute books of this State any definition of, or punishment for this crime specifically. We therefore go back to common law, not only for the definition of the crime but also for…
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