State v. Worsham

The defendant was charged, substantially in the language of the statute, with the crime of grafting, that is, with having willfully and unlawfully asked and received from one Frank O’Hara a certain compensation, gratuity and reward, to wit, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, that he could and would directly and indirectly influence certain public officers, to wit, Tom Walsh, a regular police officer of the city of Seattle, and other officers of said city of Seattle, the names of whom are to the prosecuting attorney unknown, in respect to their acts, decisions and proceedings so that W.…