Hays v. State

1. Where one is charged with aiding and abetting in procuring the promise of another to compound a felony, and also with aiding and abetting another to compound a felony, by inducing such other person to enter into a written agreement never to appear as a witness against the party indicted for the felony, or suffer him to be tried for the offense named in the indictment, and no consideration is mentioned in the written agreement, the actual agreement may be inquired into.

2. A contract to suppress a criminal prosecution, for a consideration personal to the prosecutor, is immoral and contrary…