Rogers v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Conviction for agreeing to bribe a witness; punishment, two years in the penitentiary'.

When a case is tried which demonstrates beyond question that a wrong has been done, and that the person on trial has been connected with any angle of the transaction, — especially when the hurt of the wrong affects women or children, it affords strong temptation to a jury to inflict punishment deemed meritorious on general principles, but possibly not mete to the charge laid in the indictment or supported by the facts proved. In the opinion of the writer we have here some such case.

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