State v. Howard
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Moniteau Circuit• Court. (1) A tender of a bribe to a justice of the peace, corruptly to decide a cause not pending, but afterward to be instituted before him, the bribe being declined, and the suit never undertaken, has been held indictable at common law, though not within certain statutes. 2 Bishop’s New Crim.
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Appeal from Moniteau Circuit• Court. (1) A tender of a bribe to a justice of the peace, corruptly to decide a cause not pending, but afterward to be instituted before him, the bribe being declined, and the suit never undertaken, has been held indictable at common law, though not within certain statutes. 2 Bishop’s New Crim. Law, sec. 89; Barefield v. State, 14 Ala. 603. (2) It has been held that penalties denounced against attempts to bribe “grand and petit jurors” are incurred by the offer of a bribe to a talesman not yet sworn as a juror, the opinion containing the following pertinent…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
At the March term, 1895, of' the circuit court of Moniteau county, the defendant was indicted by the grand jury of said county, for having, on the fifteenth day of February, 1895, at said county, attempted, by the offer of $100, to procure one Price Hays to commit perjury as a witness at the trial of defendant, in said circuit court, upon a charge of grand larceny, should an indictment be preferred by the grand jury against him for that offense, upon which charge defendant was then under recognizance for his appearance before the circuit court of said county.
The indictment, leaving off the…
2Cited by9 opinions
- State v. ButlerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1903
- State v. HookMissouri Court of Appeals · 1968
- State v. BallardMissouri Court of Appeals · 1956
- State v. McMahonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1911
- State v. WilburSupreme Court of Missouri · 1971
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