State v. Di Paglia

Defendant Di Paglia was indicted for Bribery in Athletie Contest, it being charged he offered money to Benjamin James Bumbry, Jr., with intent to influence him to fix the score in a basketball game.

Defendant knew Drake University at Des Moines had a basketball game scheduled with Iowa State College for December 22, 1953, and that Bumbry, with whom he was not personally acquainted, was a player on the Drake team. About December 15, 1953, defendant, under the assumed name of Charles Davis, after several days of intensive efforts to contact Bumbry, succeeded in doing so by telephoning him at the…