Fuller v. State

CATES, Judge.

Fuller is here on appeal from a judgment of conviction in the Russell Circuit Court on an indictment charging him with accepting a bribe to permit the operation of a house of prostitution known as Cliff’s Fish Camp. The trial judge sentenced him to seven years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The facts produced by ■ the State tended to show that Ralph Mathews was the Sheriff of Russell County for a term beginning January, 1951, and that Fuller was his chief deputy.

The testimony of a number of the girls who described themselves as entertainers at Cliff’s Fish Camp ran in a…