State v. Dwyer

Appellant was charged with offering a bribe to a police officer of the city of New Orleans with the intent to induce the said police officer to allow and permit him to-illegally run an immoral house, with immunity from arrest and prosecution for said offense, in violation, of the provisions of Act 5S> of 1878.

The accused was arraigned on. March 27, 1925, when he pleaded not guilty. He was called for trial on Monday, April 27, 1925. On the oral motion of his counsel, suggesting the absence of a witness, one Lillian Martinez, who was necessary to his defense, and the counsel for the state…