State v. Dark

HIGGINS, Justice.

The accused, L. J. Melton and W. D. Dark, are charged in three indictments returned by the Ouachita Parish Grand Jury with accepting three distinct bribes of $2,250, $750 and $200, respectively, in violation of the provisions of Section 1 of Act 78 of 1890. The pertinent part of one of the indictments, which is common to all of the issues raised in the three cases, reads as follows: “ * * * did then and there wilfully and feloniously, being then and there State Officers, and as such State Officers, did then and there feloniously .receive from one George D. Pipes, a sum of…