Commonwealth v. Connolly

These are two indictments against a former elected clerk for the Superior Court for civil business in the county of Suffolk, for corruptly requesting and accepting bribes. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 268, § 8. The first indictment, numbered 626, was in four counts, each of which alleged that the defendant “being a county officer, to wit” such clerk, “did corruptly request and accept from” a.named person a specified sum of money “under an agreement and with the understanding that his, the said John P. Connolly’s vote, opinion, judgment and decision should be given in a particular manner, and upon a…