State v. Barranger

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Bribery is the crime for which the defendant was in-*353dieted on the 11th day of October, 1901. The indictment charged that while serving as assistant marshal of the town of Houma, he had unlawfully received the sum of twenty-five dollars as a bribe as an inducement to him to perform the duties of his office with partiality and favor.

A few days after he had been indicted, through his counsel, he interposed a demurrer to the prosecution, on the ground that the “Statutes of 1878 and 1890, defining and punishing the crime of bribery and all other…