Commonwealth v. Waxman

Wickersham, J.,

The defendants were indicted to the number and sessions above stated upon the charge that on Nov. 29, 1922, they did unlawfully pay to Rodney W. Shaver, the prosecutor, the sum of $294 in cash and a check for $6, as and for a bribe, to procure and induce the prosecutor, a member of the Pennsylvania State Constabulary, in a certain prosecution instituted against one Grover C. Furl and Cora A. Furl, his wife, to discontinue the said prosecution against the said Furls, who were charged with the illegal possession and transportation of intoxicating liquor.

The indictment was tried…