Clark v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is accepting a bribe; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Appellant, who was a constable in Harris county, had appointed two deputy constables named Peterson and Gregg. Dick Woods, a state’s witness, lived in appellant’s precinct. Woods testified, in substance, as follows: He was running a house where people were permitted to congregate for the purpose of gambling. Gregg and Peterson often came to his house when a game was in progress, «but did not enter. They would drive to the house in van automobile and blow the horn, and he would take…