State v. Wharfield

— This cause comes here on appeal by the state from a judgment sustaining a demurrer and dismissing an information charging the respondent with offering a bribe to an “executive officer of this state,” to wit, the prosecuting attorney of Canyon county, to influence and induce him to institute a criminal action and cause a warrant of arrest to be issued..

This prosecution is conducted under C. S., sec. 8118, which was formerly Rev. Stats., sec. 6380, with the change of the words “this Territory” to read “this state,” and is as follows:

! ‘ Every person who gives or offers any bribe to any…