State v. Jones

ZINN, Justice.

A grand jury returned an indictment containing two counts. The first count charged appellants, and others, of attempting to intimidate one J. C. Rhyne, a witness in a cause pending in a justice of the peace court wherein appellant Jones was charged with the crime of assault with a deadly weapon upon J. C. Rhyne. The second count charged the same appellants with offering to bribe and bribing J. C. Rhyne, the witness.

Appellants were found guilty on the second count, and not guilty as to the first count. Judgment was rendered sentencing appellants to serve a jail term and pay a…