State v. McDonald

The second and fifth counts of the indictment were non-prossed. The court below sustained a motion to quash the first, third, fourth and sixth counts. The State, by its prosecuting attorney, excepted, prosecutes this appeal, and assigns that ruling as error.

The • substance of the first count is, that on the 15th day of June, 1884, appellee unlawfully, feloniously and corruptly offered and promised John B. Fortenbaugh, a township trustee, that if he, as such trustee, would purchase of appellee twelve sets of reading charts for the township, and pay him therefor the sum of $175, he would sign…