State v. Lyskoski

Mallery, J.Adam

Adam W. Lyskoski, defendant below and appellant here, was convicted on four counts of asking and receiving a bribe to influence his official acts in connection with certain criminals. He was acquitted on six counts, with which, of course, we are not concerned on this appeal.

In the early morning of March 7, 1952, Clyde Edwards, a Tacoma policeman, and Jack Pavlich, Otis Alnutt, and Richard Lindsey burglarized the Inglewood Golf and Country Club, near Seattle. The appellant, chief of detectives in the King county sheriff’s office, was in charge of the investigation of the crime.

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