15 A.2d 289 STATE OF MAINE vs. ARTHUR DUMAIS. Supreme Judicial Court of Maine. Androscoggin. Opinion, September 18, 1940. CRIMINAL PLEADING. BRIBERY. Solicitation of a felony is an offense indictable at common law. The common understanding of the word “offer” is verified by the dictionaries as “to bring to or before”; “to hold out to”; […]