State v. Nick

The appellant was indicted by the grand jury of King county for the crime of bribing a public officer, the charging part of the indictment reading as follows:

“The said A. B. Nick alias A. B. Nickerson, on the 9th day of March, 1911, in the County of King, State of Washington, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously and corruptly offer and give a compensation and gratuity of’ ten dollars ($10) in lawful money of the United States of America, and five dollars ($5) in lawful money of the Dominion of Canada, to H. S. Thompson, then and there a person duly and regularly executing…