State v. Woodward
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Johnson Circuit Court. — Now. W. L. Jarroit, Judge. (1) Criminal and penal statutes are to he strictly construed in all parts which are against defendants, hut liberally construed in those which are in their favor. State v. Bryant, 90 Mo. 535; State v. G-ritzner, 134 Mo. 512;-State v. Howard, 137 Mo. 289; State v. McCance, 110 Mo. 398; State v. McLain, 49 Mo.
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Appeal from Johnson Circuit Court. — Now. W. L. Jarroit, Judge. (1) Criminal and penal statutes are to he strictly construed in all parts which are against defendants, hut liberally construed in those which are in their favor. State v. Bryant, 90 Mo. 535; State v. G-ritzner, 134 Mo. 512;-State v. Howard, 137 Mo. 289; State v. McCance, 110 Mo. 398; State v. McLain, 49 Mo. App. 400. (2) To offer is: “To bring or put forward; to hold out for acceptance; to present for acceptance or rejection; to tender or make tender of; to come into view, or to be at hand.” Century Dictionary, vol. 4, p. 4090.…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
On the third day of May, 1901, the grand jury of Jackson county preferred an indictment against Grant Woodward, the defendant, in which he was charged to have unlawfully, knowingly, willfully, corruptly and feloniously attempted to corrupt one Joseph Gephart who had been duly summoned, im*397paneled and sworn as one of the jurors in a certain civil cause wherein Mary H. Walton was plaintiff and the Metropolitan Street Eailway Company was defendant, then pending and on trial in the circuit court of Jackson county, and then and there having jurisdiction of said cause, “by then and there unlawfully,…
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