State v. Smith

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The state prosecutes this appeal from the ruling of the district court quashing the indictment against the defendant, Dalton Smith, charging him with public bribery between the dates of January 1, 1967, and March 1, 1967, in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, “by offering to give the sum of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($25,000) DOLLARS, cash to Aubrey Young, a public employee of the State of Louisiana, with the intent to influence his conduct in relation to his position as Aide to the Governor of the State of Louisiana, “on the ground that the statute on which it was…