State v. Meehan

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice Beease.

The indictment in this case charged that the appellant, “on or about the 5th day of June, 1929, with force and arms, at Chesterfield court house, in the County and State aforesaid, did willfully, unlawfully, and corruptly offer to give to and did then and there give and engage to pay a sum of money, to wit: $95.00 of legal money of the United States, to George W. Gregory, then and now a member of the County Board of Commissioners of Chesterfield County, South Carolina, an appointive tribunal and body as a bribe for the said…