State v. Beattie

On exceptions. Respondent was tried and found guilty of having offered a bribe to John H. Welch, Sheriff of the County of Aroostook. The indictment, brought under Section 5 of Chapter 124, R. S. 1916, reads as follows:

“The jurors for said State upon their oath present, that Earl Beattie, of Crystal, in said county of Aroostook, at Crystal in said county of Aroostook, on the twenty-fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine feloniously and corruptly did offer to one John H. Welch, the said John H. Welch being then and there an executive officer, to…