State v. Martin

The counts in the indictment, six in all, are for the common-law crime of bribery.

Each count, so far as need be recited here, alleges that :

“George W. Martin of Augusta in said County of Kennebec, on the twenty-third day of August in the year of our Lórd one thousand nine hundred thirty-four at Augusta in said County of Kennebec being then and there entrusted with a public duty, to wit, being then and there in charge of the clothing warehouse of the Emergency Relief Administration of the State of Maine at said Augusta, engaged in the distribution of clothing for the relief of distress within…