Bruder v. State

CARVER, Justice.

This case concerns the disposition of money that was used in an attempt to bribe a police officer. The trial court denied recovery of the money to an assignee of the briber. We affirm and hold that the briber’s assignee has no claim to the money.

The case was tried on stipulated facts. John Handy Jones paid Richard Sullivan, the Chief of the Addison Police Department, $6,400 in exchange for Sullivan’s cooperation in allowing Jones and others to bring marijuana by airplane into the Addison airport without police intervention. Rather than performing the requested service,…