Davis v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The following statement of the case made by the Assistant Attorney-General, is substantially correct; One Dilmous Davis, before the alleged offense in this case had been convicted of a felony, towit: assault with intent to rape, and there was pending in the Criminal District Court of Dallas County a motion for new trial in the Dilmous Davis case.
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The following statement of the case made by the Assistant Attorney-General, is substantially correct; One Dilmous Davis, before the alleged offense in this case had been convicted of a felony, towit: assault with intent to rape, and there was pending in the Criminal District Court of Dallas County a motion for new trial in the Dilmous Davis case. John G. Wilson, assistant county attorney, was acting for the State in matters relating to the motion for new trial in said Dilmous Davis case. He testified that while this motion ivas pending, appellant Sam Davis, brother of Dilmous Davis, had a…
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
Appellant was prosecuted and convicted for attempting to bribe one of the assistant county attorneys of Dallas County, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the State penitentiary.
Appellant filed a motion to quash the indictment on a number of grounds. As the first count was not submitted by the court to the jury, those grounds complaining of that count need not be considered. As to the second count, it charges that appellant did offer to J. G. Wilson, Assistant County Attorney of Dallas County, one hundred dollars to file a motion to set aside and. recommend…
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