State v. Lavine

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The defendant was indicted for an attempt to influence a jury on the trial of a cause by solicitation of a court officer to see the jurors, or some of them, in his behalf. There were three counts in the indictment, but the first and third were abandoned, The defendant was convicted on the second, the relevant allegations of which are that an issue at *357law had been joined between defendant as plaintiff and two parties named as defendants, and a jury was empaneled to try it in the Common Pleas, and that said Lavine, intending to hinder the…