Commonwealth v. Hurley

This appeal is based upon certain assignments of error to the refusal of the judge to direct a verdict for the defendant and to give certain requests for rulings at the trial, which resulted in a verdict of guilty, of an indictment charging the defendant with offering a bribe to a municipal officer.

The city property committee of the city of Springfield, which was composed of Alderman Barker and councilmen Curto and Brunton, advertised on July 7, 1938, for proposals for boiler insurance which were to be filed on or before five o’clock in the afternoon of July 21, 1938. The defendant, who was…