Hoy v. State of Arizona

O. J. Hoy, hereinafter called defendant, was on the 18th day of November, 1937, arrested by the direction of John W. Corbin, then county attorney of Maricopa county, and placed in the county jail. On the afternoon of that day, a complaint was lodged against him before Honorable M. T. PHELPS, a duly elected, qualified and acting judge of the superior court of the state of Arizona, in and for Maricopa county, sitting as a magistrate, charging defendant with having offered a bribe to Corbin, under section 4515, Revised Code of 1928, which reads, so far as material, as follows:

“Public officer;…