State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Carroll Circuit Court. — Hon. W. W. • Rucker, Judge. The defendant was fined $500, having been found guilty of attempting to bribe one Dickenson who had been summoned and selected as one of a panel of forty, who were summoned in the case of the state of Missouri against ¥m. P. and Gleorge E. Taylor, indicted for the murder of Glus Meeks.
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Appeal from Carroll Circuit Court. — Hon. W. W. • Rucker, Judge. The defendant was fined $500, having been found guilty of attempting to bribe one Dickenson who had been summoned and selected as one of a panel of forty, who were summoned in the case of the state of Missouri against ¥m. P. and Gleorge E. Taylor, indicted for the murder of Glus Meeks. The indictment is founded on section 3675, Revised Statutes, 1889, and charges “that on the 25th day of March, 1895, at the county of Carroll and state of Missouri, a certain panel of forty jurors of said county being then and there duly summoned,…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The crime of which defendant was convicted was known at common law, and is an ancient offense. It was entitled “embracery,” It consists in all such practices as tend corruptly to influence a juror. The crime is made up of the attempt thus to influence .a juror. Upon such attempt being made, whether successful or not, the crime is consummate. The corpusdelicti, the body, essence, and substance of the offense,, *306being the corrupt attempt, it is wholly inmaterial whether the would-be corrupt or gains his point or not, or whether the juror thus approached gives any verdict or not, or whether the…
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