Embracery is an attempt to influence a jury corruptly to one side by promises, persuasions, en-treatments, money, entertainments, and the like; and punishment is provided for the person embracing and for the juror embraced.22

17 4 Blackstone, 179; 2 Bish. Cr.

Law, Sec. 86 (8th Ed.).

18 Rath vs. State, 35 Tex. Cr., 142.

19 Newman vs. People, 23 Colo., 300. 20 State vs. Walls, 54 Ind.. 561;

People vs. Willis, 54 N. Y. Supp., 52; Watson vs. State, 39 Ohio St.. 123; State vs. Walls, 54 Ind., 561.

21 Glover vs. State, 109 Ind., 391; See Cook vs. Shipman, 24 Ill., 616, giving a bond.

22 4 Blackstone Com., 140; Underbill's Cr. Ev., Sec. 450; Gibbs vs. Dewey, 5 Cow. (N. Y.), 503; 3 Greenl. Ev., Sec. 100 (Edg. Ed.); State vs. Brown, 95 N. C, 685.

Any effort to unlawfully influence a jury, whether successful or not, constitutes the offense.23

By some statutes the unlawful influencing of a jury or jurors is made bribery; so it is bribery for any juror to receive or agree to receive a bribe to influence him as a juror.24

So an attempt to bribe a juror with intent to influence him to violate his duty, includes any of the jurors summoned and not merely jurors trying cases.25

Under a statute making it an offense "to corrupt or attempt to corrupt a juror," is included any juror who has been summoned for service as a juror whether he becomes one of the travers jurymen or not.26 The mere formation of the purpose and the expression of it in words are not sufficient; there must be some attempt to carry the purpose into effect.27