State v. Morton

The defendant (respondent), John Morton, an elementary school principal in the Woodland School District No. 404, was charged with criminal offenses in four counts of an amended information filed in the Superior Court for Cowlitz County. Count 1 accused the defendant of committing the crime of ■ asking or receiving a bribe (RCW 9.18.020), and- charged that the defendant was a person who “executes functions of a public officer” and had unlawfully received $120 as compensation from ALTA Industries, Inc., for an agreement, or understanding that his opinion, judgment, decision and action would be…