State v. McManis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The appeal presents the wail of a bootlegger who, finding himself trapped, threatened violence to his captors, then attempted to bribe them, then attempted either to suborn perjury or to inveigle one of the captors into a position which would subject him to impeachment as a witness, and then perjured himself at the trial in a pitiful effort to show he was “framed.” The nasty story will not be told in detail.

McManis and Roberts were bootleggers, and McManis was convicted on six counts of an information filed in the district court charging…