Creswell v. State

Rainey Creswell, to whom we shall refer as defendant, was convicted of bribery, and his maximum punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

The substance of the indictment is that after B. P. Osborn had been duly and legally selected and sworn as a juror to try Walter Liggett on a charge of1 murder, defendant promised to pay said juror two hundred dollars in lawful money if he would return a verdict of not guilty.

Defendant filed a written motion to quash the indictment because it did not aver knowledge on his part of the official character of Osborn. The motion was overruled, and this…