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- Title: State of Maine v. Dumais
- Author : Androscoggin Supreme Court of Maine
- Release Date : January 18, 1940
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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The sufficiency of two indictments is challenged and the questions of law involved are reported to the court for determination. The first indictment is at common law, alleging in substance that the respondent, while a member of the School Committee of Lewiston, solicited a bribe from a candidate for appointment as janitor of a school building in return for his vote and influence in furtherance of such appointment. Solicitation of a felony is an offense indictable at common law. State v. Beckwith, 135 Me. 423, 198 A. 739. The first objection is that the language of the indictment does not clearly state that the initiative was taken by the respondent, while the criminality of solicitation is because the respondent sets a scheme in motion and creates in the bribe-giver a willingness to bribe. The phraseology used was that the respondent ""feloniously and corruptly did offer and agree to vote for"" Joseph Galarneau as janitor, ""provided the said Joseph Galarneau would pay to the said Arthur Dumais the sum of three hundred dollars in money for his vote,"" etc.
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