State v. Dumais

The sufficiency of two indictments is challenged and the questions of law involved are reported to the court for determination. The first indictment is at common law, alleging in substance that the respondent, while a member of the School Committee of Lew*97iston, solicited a bribe from a candidate for appointment as janitor of a school building in return for his vote and influence in furtherance of such appointment.

Solicitation of a felony is an offense indictable at common-law: State v. Beckwith, 135 Me., 123, 198 A., 739. The first-objection-is that the language of the indictment does not…