State v. Ellis
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On motion to quash indictment. An indictment for bribery was found against the defendant in the Quarter Sessions of Hudson county, charging him with having wickedly and corruptly offered the sum of fifty dollars to a member of the common council of Hudson City, to vote for a certain application to lay a railroad track along one of the public streets of said city.
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On motion to quash indictment. An indictment for bribery was found against the defendant in the Quarter Sessions of Hudson county, charging him with having wickedly and corruptly offered the sum of fifty dollars to a member of the common council of Hudson City, to vote for a certain application to lay a railroad track along one of the public streets of said city. The case having been removed into this court by certiorari, the defendant moved to quash the indictment, on the ground that it set forth no crime.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dalrimple, J.
The indictment in this case was removed into this court by certiorari to the Sessions of Hudson. It sets forth in substance, in language sufficiently plain and intelligible, that application having been duly made to the common council of Jersey City for leave to lay a railroad track along one of the public streets of that city, the defendant wickedly and corruptly offered to one of the members of said common council the sum of fifty dollars to vote in favor of said application. Upon return of the certiorari, a motion was made to quash the…
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