State v. Ferraro

UDALL, Justice.

Ida Watson signed a criminal complaint before a magistrate of Pima County charging one Pallas Combs with statutory rape upon her seventeen year old daughter. Before the preliminary hearing in the Combs case was held, defendant (in the present case) Joseph Ferraro went to the home of Ida Watson and offered her a bribe of one hundred dollars to influence her testimony in the Combs case. Later when he returned and repeated the offer, which was not accepted, a deputy sheriff stationed in an adjoining room having overheard the latter conversation promptly arrested Ferraro upon a…