State v. Austin

J. — Bribery, like murder, will out, particularly when the negotiations are broadcast by police radio transmitters.

The prosecuting attorney for King County charged Norman Wadie Austin and Patsy Gentile jointly as principals with bribing a Seattle police detective to influence his actions in a grand larceny prosecution. Gentile later pleaded guilty to the bribery charge and received a sentence of 10 years imprisonment; Austin went to trial and from a judgment and sentence of 10 years imprisonment appeals, making 13 assignments of error from which three questions of law emerge. First, the…